--- title: Best The Register posts — January 2025 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted The Register posts from January 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/theregister/best-of/2025/01 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/theregister/best-of/2025/01 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best The Register posts — January 2025 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted The Register posts from January 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of The Register — January 2025 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/ghostty-1-a-better-terminal-emulator-jscdbnrll "Ghostty 1: A better terminal emulator") Article The Register · 2y Ghostty 1: A better terminal emulator Ghostty, a terminal emulator developed by HashiCorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto, has reached version 1.0.1\. It is cross-platform, available for macOS and Linux, and is implemented in the Zig programming language. Ghostty offers several notable improvements, including GPU acceleration, efficient processor usage, and support for multiple writing systems and font rendering. Despite its new features, Ghostty has some compatibility issues with traditional desktop environments. 41 6 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/linus-torvalds-offers-to-build-free-guitar-effects-pedal-nvtfvkplw "Linus Torvalds offers to build free guitar effects pedal") Article The Register · 2y Linus Torvalds offers to build free guitar effects pedal Linus Torvalds has offered to hand-build a guitar effects pedal for a random kernel developer who has a commit from 2024\. The offer was made in his latest kernel release update, where he mentioned his interest in building guitar pedals as a holiday hobby. Torvalds, while not a guitarist, enjoys the tinkering and sees the giveaway as a way to check engagement with his weekly updates. 22 4 3. 3 [](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-delete-accounts-the-same-day-you-visit-the-dentist-ps8neiftc "Don't delete accounts the same day you visit the dentist") Article The Register · 2y Don't delete accounts the same day you visit the dentist Blair, a Unix sysadmin, once faced a major issue after implementing LDAP authentication on a customer ticketing system, causing the deletion of millions of users. Without clear warnings in the documentation, he had to perform a crash course in Oracle database recovery to restore the users. 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