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Tim's blog
Personal blog · blog.thechases.comsystemsprogramming
Tim's blog is a personal blog at blog.thechases.com about systems and programming. Since 2020, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Why Use Ed(1)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on setting up a speech-enabled terminal on OpenBSD and on IBM's ThinkPad 701 laptop. Comments discuss edbrowse, Emacspeak and other accessibility tools for blind users.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Random ponderings
Most-linked posts?
- Why Use Ed(1)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-12-04
- How I Use remind(1)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-10-13
What Hacker News says?
>Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Ah, well. I tried it under a Gemini proxy too, same message. I might run it under edbrowse with Duktape. And it worked, but without Javascript enabled to my surprise: https://github.com/cmb/edbrowse Have fun learning a browser for the blind, but unvaluable for the hacker (either sighted or not). Fast guide (you ed users already know how to use edbrowse, just glance a bit…
Comment linking /posts/bsd/setting-up-a-terminal-screen-reader-on-openbsd/
on “A look at IBM's short-lived "butterfly" ThinkPad 701 of 1995”Submitted Why BSDs? as a story · 10 points
HN discussionWith yasr, speech-dispatcher and Linux/BSD you could play some text games or browse HN with edbrowse :P Altough with Emacs and Emacspeak you could do nearly anything. https://blog.thechases.com/posts/bsd/setting-up-a-terminal-s... For OpenBSD, but close for Linux. And, Emacspeak for Emacs: https://tvraman.github.io/emacspeak/manual/ I'm not blind, but for this experiment it would be too easy to waste time.
Comment linking /posts/bsd/setting-up-a-terminal-screen-reader-on-openbsd/
on “Blind, Alone, and Confused for 24 Hours Challenge (2020)”Submitted Assorted Less(1) Tips as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Use Ed(1) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Use remind(1) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Ed(1)? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Ed(1)? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Use Remind(1) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Tim Uses Remind(1) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Ed(1) as a Password Manager as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Aggressive Pf(4) Configuration for SSH Protection as a story · 1 points
HN discussion