The first and mostly only time I use byobu was for production operations on a mysql database cluster. I thought it was some customized script or version of screen meaning Bring-Your-Own-BackUp. I later realized that's what those folding screens are called.
I'm also confused by why this is being posted now? I've been using byobu for almost a decade now - it and fish shell are the first things I install on a new system.
leephillips 3 hours ago [-]
Look at the list of contributors on the Github page, and you will see one of the popular plagiarism machines. It’s the third most prolific committer to the project.
lproven 3 hours ago [-]
Interesting. Yes, I do see that.
The activity graph exactly matches that of Kirkland himself: nothing until the last 3 bars, then identical. So I think we can conclude that DK is using Claude.
I detest the automatic-idiocy bots as much as anyone, but I think we do have to ask what he's doing with it.
dustinkirkland 55 minutes ago [-]
Dustin Kirkland here, author of Byobu, among other things.
For me, Claude has brought the joy back to creating again. I have a very busy schedule -- working a full time job, managing a huge team, raising a family.
For many years (some have noticed the gap in git history) -- I haven't had the time to work on Byobu (or, my employment arrangement made it difficult to contribute to open source software).
But now, I'm employed by a company that welcomes open source contribution. And Claude has given me a small army of interns, for $20/month -- that have been working around the clock fixing bugs and adding features that I've always wanted to work on, but haven't had the time to do so.
timmmmmmay 2 hours ago [-]
oh no he's using computers to write software
dustinkirkland 54 minutes ago [-]
Oh no! Not that! :-)
Rendered at 18:59:37 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002821
I tried to compare terminal multiplexers a couple of years ago:
https://www.theregister.com/software/2025/06/24/tiling-termi...
Citation:
https://byobu.org/#about
The activity graph exactly matches that of Kirkland himself: nothing until the last 3 bars, then identical. So I think we can conclude that DK is using Claude.
I detest the automatic-idiocy bots as much as anyone, but I think we do have to ask what he's doing with it.
For me, Claude has brought the joy back to creating again. I have a very busy schedule -- working a full time job, managing a huge team, raising a family.
For many years (some have noticed the gap in git history) -- I haven't had the time to work on Byobu (or, my employment arrangement made it difficult to contribute to open source software).
But now, I'm employed by a company that welcomes open source contribution. And Claude has given me a small army of interns, for $20/month -- that have been working around the clock fixing bugs and adding features that I've always wanted to work on, but haven't had the time to do so.