Weekly Tech Cocktail – Issue #9
Washington pulls Fable and Mythos offline, an agent bankrupts its operator scanning DN42, curl pauses bug reports
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2026
How to control a nested tmux session (send the prefix to the inner one)?
When one tmux runs inside another, forward the prefix with send-prefix to control the inner session.
How to kill a tmux session, or the whole server?
Kill one tmux session, every session except one, or the whole tmux server.
How to switch between tmux sessions without detaching?
Jump from one tmux session to another from inside tmux, without detaching and re-attaching.
How to manage tmux clients (list, kick out, disconnect)?
List who is attached to a tmux session, grab it back from another terminal, and detach other clients.
How to rename a tmux session or window?
Rename a tmux session or window from the keyboard or the shell, and keep the name you typed.
How to detach, list, and re-attach a tmux session?
Leave a tmux session running in the background, list what is alive, and jump back in, from the keyboard or the shell.
How to start a named tmux session with a window name and a directory?
Create a detached tmux session, name its first window, and start it in a chosen directory, all in one command.
How to create or attach to a tmux session in one command?
A single idempotent tmux command that creates a session or attaches to it if it already exists. Perfect for scripts and shell startup files.
2025
Weekly Tech Cocktail – Issue #8
Opus 4.1 and GPT-5 land in the same week, three authors sue over training data, and CSS finally nests selectors