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Ashwin Nanjappa
Personal blog · codeyarns.com/techprogrammingsystems
Ashwin Nanjappa writes Code Yarns Tech Blog, a personal blog at codeyarns.com about programming and systems. Since 2017, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this personal tech notes blog of 2500+ posts, covering software, Linux, macOS, Graphviz and DOT graph conversion, and clipboard quirks, as a reference for later lookup.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /tech/2017-01-18-the-two-clipboards-in-linux.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-26
- /2017/10/21/how-to-convert-dot-graph-to-ascii/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-08-29
What Hacker News says?
You might be getting bitten by Linux having two clipboards https://codeyarns.com/tech/2017-01-18-the-two-clipboards-in-... . If you use a clipboard manager (e.g. gpaste or parcellite) they can be configured to synchronize the two. Windows uses Control-C for copying and that will for sure not be compatible with, say, terminal emulators (hence Shift-Control-C is very common). No idea about the waffle key.
Comment linking /tech/2017-01-18-the-two-clipboards-in-linux.html
on “I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple”Submitted The strange case of Xfinity login failure as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPerl to the rescue! https://codeyarns.com/2017/10/21/how-to-convert-dot-graph-to...
Comment linking /2017/10/21/how-to-convert-dot-graph-to-ascii/
on “Markdeep – plain text documents with diagrams, equations, and Markdown syntax”Submitted Human.json as a story · 2 points
HN discussionKept them as blog posts: https://codeyarns.com/tech/index.html#cheatsheet
Comment linking /tech/index.html
on “Ask HN: Can I see your cheatsheet?”Submitted MEGASync Client Not Syncing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionA few people have mentioned alternative diagramming software projects as well as a desire for ASCII output. To this end, I'll throw in a mention of Graphviz[0] and Graph::Easy[1]. While I have not used the latter, I have used Graphviz/DOT and can recommend giving it consideration. 0 - http://graphviz.org/ 1 - https://codeyarns.com/2017/10/21/how-to-convert-dot-graph-to...
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on “Diagrams: A diagram editor for the Mac”Submitted Understanding C++ virtual functions using readelf and objdump as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt isn't always even bugs. There are features I'd GNU+Linux to get rid of most notably the two clipboards. Screw that noise. We only need one clipboard. However, what we get is more code to keep the clipboards in sync. https://codeyarns.com/tech/2017-01-18-the-two-clipboards-in-...
Comment linking /tech/2017-01-18-the-two-clipboards-in-linux.html
on “Hector Martin: we care about fixing Linux problems on Asahi”https://codeyarns.com/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”https://codeyarns.com/tech/ 2500+ posts from almost 20 years on the web. Essentially a place to take notes: on the digital devices I use and tips of the software I use. The main idea is to have a place I can refer to when I want some programming/software/hardware detail a second time, instead of returning to Google search again. I've found it easier to have my own notes (once I find the info I need) since other sour…
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”
