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Darren Burns

Software engineer in Edinburgh, building developer tools for the terminal.

I enjoy working on open-source developer tooling, mostly in Python and mostly for the terminal. I made Posting, spent three years working full-time on Textual, and occasionally write about what I learn along the way.

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Posting A keyboard-centric HTTP client that lives in your terminal. posting.sh
Textual The Python framework for building terminal apps. I worked on it full-time for three years. textual.textualize.io
Elia A snappy terminal UI for chatting with large language models. github.com/darrenburns/elia
Dunk Pipe your git diffs into it and get them back beautiful. github.com/darrenburns/dunk

Learning

interactive explainer Anatomy of a keystroke Follow a single key press from the keyboard, through the terminal emulator and the kernel's PTY, to your shell and back again as pixels.