Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh@hachyderm.io

2/25/2026, 9:22:06 PM

Public

During one of the macOS updates (26.2?), Apple somehow introduced an ObjC exception that sometimes triggers when a new tab is created while in the tab overview. Swift CANNOT CATCH ObjC exceptions. Instant crash. This affected Ghostty as well as Electron (unrelated project).

The fix is equally crazy: write an ObjC wrapper around the crashy-function, catch it, and basically retry periodically. This is 100% an Apple bug, but the way it manifests and the fix required to workaround it is pretty gnarly.

Credit to everyone but me, I didn't do any research here, I only read the good work by others on this one (all visible in the refs).

Ref: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/commit/8b1e4c66d7eedbc9455e5e06c15b531945b1ccc3
Ref: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/49819

macOS: fix crash when adding tab from tab overview (#11009) · ghostty-org/ghostty@8b1e4c6

(moved from #11008) I have this branch up to fix #10252. It was written with AI (in Cursor), but only after I made sure I thoroughly understood what was happening (almost to an excessive extent). ...

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