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Blogs on aduros.com is a personal blog at aduros.com about programming and systems. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2021–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link aduros.com for its posts on terminal setup and dot files, including a piece on xterm. Commenters share the xterm config and point to the xterm post as a reference.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-01-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. My slightly odd preference is... bash-5.2$ cat .nanorc set zero Together with UXTerm.vt100.translations: #override \n\ Ctrl Shift <Key>N: scroll-back(1, halfpage) \n\ Ctrl Shift <Key>T: scroll-forw(1, halfpage) \n\ Ctrl Shift <Key>C: copy-selection(CLIPBOARD) \n\ Ctrl Shift <Key>V: insert-selection(CLIPBOARD) \n\ Ctrl Shift <Key>H: set-altscreen(toggle) in .Xresources. See https://aduros.com/blog/xterm-its-better-th…

    Comment linking /blog/xterm-its-better-than-you-thought/

    on “Fulfilling a reader's request for my “dot files””
  2. Submitted XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought as a story · 154 points

    HN discussion
  3. I was interested in Tabby until I checked github and saw that it's yet another Electron app. I'll stick with XTerm. https://aduros.com/blog/xterm-its-better-than-you-thought/

    Comment linking /blog/xterm-its-better-than-you-thought/

    on “Tabby is a free and open source SSH, local and Telnet terminal”
  4. Submitted Xterm: It's better than you thought (2021) as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion

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