rcmnd

tmuxSoftware

by tmux project

Who uses, recommends or left tmux, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

6 people

Mitchell Hashimoto
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
loved

credit where credit is due tmux has excellent memory usage for empty states.

2026-09-02·x.com ↗

Thomas Ptacek
Security researcher; co-founded Matasano Security and Latacora, writes at sockpuppet.org.
recommended

I use a similar process to build TUI apps (tell your agent to use tmux to test the TUI, it works a treat).

Post arguing developers should build native GUIs instead of terminal UIs. His workflow tip for having an agent test a terminal UI.

2026-08-20·sockpuppet.org ↗

Pieter Levels
Dutch indie maker and solo founder of Nomads.com, Remote OK and Photo AI; writes about building bootstrapped products at levels.io.
uses

I click it and immediately I'm in my server and I get dropped in a tmux session that's always tied to the corresponding site I wanna log in to

Walking through his one-tmux-session-per-site setup.

2026-05-22·levels.io ↗

Duncan McClean
Scottish software developer working on Statamic and maintaining open-source addons such as Runway; writes at duncanmcclean.com.
uses

I'm currently trying out Tmux after watching Alex Six's talk at Laracon US.

His post "Uses (September 2025)", listing the tools, services and equipment he uses day to day.

2025-09-06·duncanmcclean.com ↗

Carlos Alexandro Becker
Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub and writes at carlosbecker.com.
uses

Tmux: Terminal multiplexer.

His /uses page, a running list of the hardware and software he works with; its own changelog gives 2025-04-03 as the latest edit.

2025-04-03·carlosbecker.com ↗

Chris Wellons
Software engineer who writes about low-level programming at nullprogram.com; author of Elfeed, Endlessh and Enchive.
uses

To manage this setup, I'm nearly always using tmux, a terminal multiplexer.

His Uses This interview, on a deliberately minimal Linux and terminal setup.

2019-10-04·usesthis.com ↗

What they also use

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.