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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ah yes, Dustin Kirkland, whose HN question ended Ubuntu's best work:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002821
How so?
How does this compare to zellij?
On its own, it doesn't. On top of tmux, somewhat.
I tried to compare terminal multiplexers a couple of years ago:
https://www.theregister.com/software/2025/06/24/tiling-termi...
Caution: partly authored by an LLM.
Where? Byobu has been around since 2008 and so long predates LLM coding "assistants".
Citation:
https://byobu.org/#about
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.
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.
oh no he's using computers to write software
Oh no! Not that! :-)
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.
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.
I was just thinking about installing it the other day as well.