Writing4 essays
⤓ /rss$ tail -f marginalia.log
2026
APR 19
Ansizalizer and the quiet TUI renaissance
6 minZebbeni's ansizalizer converts images to ANSI art in a keyboard-driven TUI — and somewhere between the palette browser and the GIF preview, I was 12 again.
[tui][ansi][retrocomputing]
APR 8
First look: Gemma 4 E2B — Google's thinking model that runs on your laptop
4 minFirst impressions running Gemma 4 E2B locally via Ollama — what e2b and quant mean, and why watching it think through 'hi' is delightful.
[ai][local-llm][first-look]
MAR 18
How PTYs actually work — a deep dive into pseudo-terminals
1 minA practical tour of pseudo-terminals on Unix, from ioctl to job control and why your terminal emulator is never “just a pipe”.
[internals][systems][linux]
FEB 4
Writing a terminal emulator in Rust from scratch
1 minNotes on building a GPU-rendered terminal emulator — PTY allocation, parsing escape sequences, and rendering with wgpu.
[rust][systems]