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Alex Plescan
Personal blog · alexplescan.com/posts · on HN as alexplsprogrammingdataproductivity
Alex Plescan's personal blog at alexplescan.com covers programming, data and productivity. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Using SVG to create simple sparkline charts”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on building SVG sparklines, small inline line charts. One HN commenter links it as an example of someone who has already done something like the Unicode sparklines idea.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Alex Plescan's website
Most-linked posts?
- Using SVG to create simple sparkline charts2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-10
- Just for fun: animating a mosaic of 90s GIFs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-16
What Hacker News says?
The global gitignore is super useful! I add a “.x” entry to it so that I can create scripts, drafts, etc in a “.x” folder in any of my projects. Wrote more details about how I do this here: https://alexplescan.com/posts/2022/04/17/the-x-files/
Comment linking /posts/2022/04/17/the-x-files/
on “Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore”Submitted Okay, I Like WezTerm as a story · 488 points
HN discussionPeople have done something like this. No standard web component so far unfortunately. https://alexplescan.com/posts/2023/07/08/easy-svg-sparklines...
Comment linking /posts/2023/07/08/easy-svg-sparklines/
on “The Tao of Unicode Sparklines (2021)”Submitted GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life? as a story · 120 points
HN discussionNeat! Generating PDFs from RSS feeds is a great idea. Some thoughts: I have a Kindle - something I'd find valuable would be having a digest of "Today's top stories" sent to my kindle's email address as an epub so I can check it out each day. But on Kindle, I think the 3 column layout would be too narrow to read - it makes sense on A4, but not smaller. How do you do your daily sync to ReMarkable? btw, it looks like i…
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on “Show HN: Analog Reader – Turn newsletters into printable newspapers”Submitted Just for fun: animating a mosaic of 90s GIFs as a story · 68 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using SVG to create simple sparkline charts as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Animating a Mosaic of 90s GIFs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling – Alex Plescan as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Timeseries with PostgreSQL as a story · 1 points
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