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Automated Imagination
Personal blog · jeremyhussell.blogspot.comprogrammingwriting
Automated Imagination is a personal blog at jeremyhussell.blogspot.com about programming and writing. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Plain Text (2021)”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's 'Falsehoods programmers believe about plain text' post as one of the lists of common programmer misconceptions about text. The comments cite it without judging its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Plain Text (2021)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-11-27
What Hacker News says?
Is there an easy way to display a diff which shows all the new links since the last time this was on HN? (Sept. 8th, 2020) Partial list: Falsehoods about Airline Seat Maps https://duffel.com/blog/falsehoods-about-seat-maps Falsehoods about Biometrics https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/falsehoods-programmers-beli... Falsehoods about Plain Text https://jeremyhussell.blogspot.com/2017/11/falsehoods-progra...
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on “A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe”Submitted Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Plain Text (2021) as a story · 36 points
HN discussionFalsehoods programmers believe about text: - Everybody just uses english text, right? - Ok, sometimes there might some weird accents or something - Every character is about the same width - Well, they're all integer numbers of characters wide - No character is taller than an english I - Everybody writes left to right - Everyone writes horizontally Also https://jeremyhussell.blogspot.com/2017/11/falsehoods-progra...…
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on “Rendering complex scripts in terminal and OSC 66”> I feel like there's a "Fallacies programmers believe about text" that should exist somewhere I got you covered. https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#international... http://garbled.benhamill.com/2017/04/18/falsehoods-programme... https://jeremyhussell.blogspot.com/2017/11/falsehoods-progra... https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/30296 I love how the writing gets visibly more unhinged and fru…
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on “Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes”