Astrohacker Blog

## EarthBucks Is a Core Astrohacker Product EarthBucks is now a core Astrohacker product: restyled to match the company, folded into the main repository, with live earthbucks.com still on 1.0.

## TermSurf 0.3.10 Adds Three PATH Apps and Retires ahhelp TermSurf 0.3.10 adds EarthBucks mining, Plotly overlays, and Torch to PATH and retires ahhelp.

## TermSurf 0.2.0 Runs a Real Chromium Browser in a Terminal Pane TermSurf 0.2.0 runs a real Chromium browser in a terminal pane.

Password managers store secrets.

You start a local server.

Your frontend is on **3456**.

You open **ahweb**, land on a page with a normal ``, and click it.

You open **Astrohacker TermSurf**, land in **ahsh**, and the banner does not only mention Shift+Tab.

Most of the economy still looks like **person ↔ person**.

You upgrade **Astrohacker TermSurf**, open a pane, click into the URL field, and the caret lands where you meant.

You open a long page in an **Astrohacker TermSurf** Chromium pane, flick the trackpad, and the document **keeps coasting** after your fingers leave the glass.

You open `https://astrohacker.com` in a pane, put **Astrohacker TermSurf** into native fullscreen, and the glyph rain keeps moving.

You open the Dock and the app no longer says **Terminal**.

You open a URL in a terminal pane and a **real** browser engine paints the page beside your shell.

On [July 17 we field-noted 0.1.29 through 0.1.37](/blog/2026-07-17-astrohacker-0-1-37): stock Terminal defaults (TokyoNight, borders, font, keybinds, ahsh, XDG), zsh under ahsh for traditional mode, and quieter ahweb chrome.

On [July 17 we field-noted 0.1.17 through 0.1.29](/blog/2026-07-17-since-astrohacker-0-1-17): real browser toolbar, shell less leaky, install path less aspirational, and the **editor cut out of the cask**.

On [July 13 we announced 0.1.17](/blog/2026-07-13-astrohacker-0-1-17): real browser engines in panes next to your shell on Apple silicon, one Homebrew cask, early-adopter honesty.

You write down what “solved” means.

You live in a terminal now more than you did five years ago.

You are mid-session on a MacBook Pro.

Astrohacker Terminal runs **real browser engines** in the same window as your shell: Chromium, WebKit, Ladybird today, and Gecko on the long path.

We used to open [astrohacker.com](https://astrohacker.com) like a trade-show booth map.

We don't solve software issues at Astrohacker anymore.

EarthBucks 2.0 is becoming a working system.

Astrohacker has begun work on [EarthBucks 2.0](https://earthbucks.com/blog/2026-05-03-beginning-work-on-earthbucks-2-0).

[KeyPears](https://keypears.com) is now hybrid post-quantum.

The open web still publishes.

For years I've been shipping projects under scattered banners — a blockchain here, a shell there, an encrypted messenger, a social-network joke that got out of hand.