2026-01-25
Weekly open source: cterm, week two
Week of January 19–25. cterm took 119 of the week's 126 commits — the kind of week where one project eats everything else.
Nothing ships in a terminal emulator without grinding through a long list: rendering pipelines, input handling quirks, platform clipboard APIs, scrollback, search, configuration, tabs, splits, window restoration, accessibility glue, keyboard-layout edge cases. Most of that is invisible from outside. The target is to make day-to-day work with Claude — and with a normal shell — a bit smoother than it would be in a stock terminal.
Small trickles elsewhere: Shells-com/linux-scripts (5 commits), AzusaOS/azusa-opensource-recipes (1), and rest (1). Nothing to write home about individually.