When Divmod ran out of things to release, what does a man of action such as JP Calderone do? He finds another project to release. Twisted Names. Twisted Mail. I imagine he is like a Pokémon trainer, marshalling his release announcements for battle.

Now it's up to you - you've gotta catch 'em all.

"gotta catch 'em all" is probably a trademark of those bastards at Nintendo Corporation or something, maybe. Surprisingly enough, used without permission.

Have you noticed a theme on JP's blog lately?

Yesterday evening, the exciting conclusion, impeccably timed to coincide with a flattering rant this morning about web frameworks. And I quote:

The guys who wrote Twisted inhabit a world of such extreme abstraction that it makes my brain hurt just to think about it. However, for big problems, serious abstraction is a good thing. Combined with some of the products from Divmod(...) you do really get a framework that I think solves many of the major problems in building large scale applications that remain flexible.

I'm happy it uses Twisted, but can somebody with the appropriate language skills (.cn chinese) tell me what the heck this is?

So these terminal programs suck, right? They get basic configuration options wrong, they crash a lot. I need a higher availability terminal.

Well, the underlying widget seems to work OK so long as you don't drive it too hard, so, I wrote my own "terminal" by just trivially invoking libvte from Python.

So here it is, HATE, the High Availability Terminal Emulator.

Blah blah, no warranty - if you use this my agents will hunt you down and kill you.

Enjoy.

I have recently installed Ubuntu Breezy. It's pretty awesome.

However, I have a problem. All the terminals on pretty much all modern Linux systems (Ubuntu, Debian, FC3/4, etc) are either broken or impossible to configure. I assumed that these issues would be fixed in the new distro, but they seem to be getting worse - I guess terminals are falling out of vogue.

xterm displays "ÿ" when I hit M-backspace, which should be "delete previous word". This is a keystroke I use a lot. It also corrupts the terminal by improperly interpreting a multibyte sequence as a single character for forward movement rather than backward movement.

gnome-terminal - crashes all the god damn time, for no reason I can discern. screws up Epic pretty regularly.

xterminal - this one is my favorite. It screws up my backspace key when I run screen locally. Emacs thinks I'm typing C-@, zsh and bash don't delete a character.

rxvt - least buggy of the bunch, and it looks like what I'll be using, but ... Xt-style scrollbars? no antialiased fonts? no interactive font selection? customization through X resources? Seriously.

Hey, maybe they could figure out a way to make me care about how many stop bits I'm using, that'd be so retro!