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azabani.com
Personal blog · azabani.com · on HN as delanprogrammingsystems
azabani.com is a personal blog at azabani.com about programming and systems. Since 2012, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Nonymous and bore: DNS toys for Rust”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this blog's posts on Unicode and text encoding, including a Unicode talk's slides, plus a Teletext Bad Apple demo and a Fluent localization project. The comments cite them without judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Nonymous and bore: DNS toys for Rust3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-01-04
- Unicode: Good, Bad, and Ugly (2011)2 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2015-11-11
- Bad Apple for Taskmgr2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-09
- Xd(1)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-15
What Hacker News says?
I think the presentation you're thinking of is Tom Christiansen's Unicode: The Good, the Bad, and the (mostly) Ugly : https://www.azabani.com/pages/gbu/
Comment linking /pages/gbu/
on “Fluent 1.0: a localization system for natural-sounding translations”Submitted Understanding database normalisation: a very short tutorial as a story · 152 points
HN discussionEnglish is Unicode. Pretending otherwise would be quite naïve. https://www.azabani.com/pages/gbu/#slide4
Comment linking /pages/gbu/
on “Text Processing in the Shell”Submitted Unicode: Good, Bad, and Ugly (2011) as a story · 77 points
HN discussionThat’s neat! I made this tool for Unicode in general: https://www.azabani.com/labs/charming/
Comment linking /labs/charming/
on “Dark corners of Unicode (2015)”Submitted Generative AI in Servo as a story · 27 points
HN discussionRelated: https://www.azabani.com/2020/06/29/bad-apple-for-taskmgr.htm...
Comment linking /2020/06/29/bad-apple-for-taskmgr.html
on “Teletext Bad Apple”Submitted Show HN: Online IEEE 754 playground as a story · 20 points
HN discussionStart by figuring out how to build the project and locally run what you just built. Once you can do that, you can make simple changes like fixing typos, and move up from there. If there is a guide for contributors, read through that too. There is lots of documentation about OSS out there too, for eg: https://producingoss.com/ If you want to get paid to work in OSS, check out FOSSjobs and their wiki. If you want to g…
Comment linking /2020/09/27/my-internship-with-igalia.html
on “Advice for those getting into OSS contributing”Submitted Scalabox: CSS fully-scalable box generator as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Depression as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: charming: a light, web-based Unicode character browser as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: interaw: visualise binary data as images as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unicode Support Shootout (2011) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nonymous and bore: DNS toys for Rust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nonymous and bore(1): DNS toys for Rust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Xd(1) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unicode Support Shootout (2011) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Forcing a single timezone in Jekyll as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web engine CI on a shoestring budget as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unicode: Good, Bad, & Ugly (2011) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unicode Support Shootout (2011) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chromium Spelling and Grammar Features as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unicode Support Shootout (2011) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nonymous and bore(1): DNS toys for Rust as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Xd(1) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bad Apple for Taskmgr as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unicode Support Shootout (2011) as a story · 1 points
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