$ whoami Chad Metcalf, CEO of Continue.dev $ cat ~/.work_history # 20'ish years in open source & startups # Six companies: Arch Rock → Cloudera → WibiData → Puppet → Docker → Gitpod → Continue # Developer → Infrastructure → Build/Release → Sales → CEO $ ls ~/current_toolchain/ dotfiles/ # Always be rewriting bash/ # Daily driver for everything python/ # venv everywhere... go/ # Trying to write more, reminds me of the old days ruby/ # Makes me happy, miss it sometimes
Why “Just a Demo”?
I love demos. Demos have been an important part of all the startups I’ve worked at. Everyone gets excited about seeing a cool demo. Demos can spark an idea.
A lot of these blog posts are just small cool things I’ve gotten to work. So they are just demos that you, the reader, can copy and paste to solve your own problem.
The Developer Journey
I’ve been working on open source projects for 20’ish years. I’ve been a developer, run infrastructure, loved build & release, and took a tour in sales. I’ve worked in seven startups over the years.
Now I’m the CEO of Continue.dev, where we’re building AI tools that amplify developers.
Why This Blog Exists
Like many developers, I loved the idea of having a blog but hated the idea of having a blog that looked like everyone else’s. After I started daily driving Ghostty I wondered could you theme a blog to look like a terminal? I could not. Front end was never my thing. But in the age of AI could Claude bring terminal aesthetics to the web for me?
This blog is built with open source tools I genuinely love:
- Ghostty - My favorite terminal, the inspiration for this blog
- Continue CN - Our CLI tool (shameless plug!) that helped make this real
- Claude - If you’re going to wrap a model it should probably be this family
- Hugo & Risotto Theme for making static sites easy and beautiful
- Starship - Tweak the daylights out of your prompt
- Neovim - Vi for life
- Base16 - Color scheme architecture
- Nord - The palette that makes everything cohesive
The Terminal Aesthetic
I spend my days in terminals and editors that I’ve carefully configured to be beautiful and
functional. I’ve tried to capture that same aesthetic here. Clean typography, consistent base16
colors, and TUI-style navigation that makes me smile every time I ls my recent posts.