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Bob Pritchett
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Bob Pritchett writes BobPritchett.com, a personal blog at bobpritchett.com about business and programming. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Unicode Text Inspector for Developers”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers linked this post in a thread on ASCII delimited text as a format for storing data. The one comment only discusses the delimiter characters and does not judge the post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Home of Bob Pritchett (AllDrafts, Faithlife/Logos, Fire Someone Today, Start Next Now) on the web.
Most-linked posts?
- Unicode Text Inspector for Developers2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-03-19
What Hacker News says?
> But there is never any reason to use these characters literally, they are just delimiters. I can put [ ]* in my comment (maybe because I'm demonstrating the format, referencing the characters, or just being capricious), and now someone scraping and storing comments has a need to use those characters literally. Sometimes fine to ignore certain content or store it lossily, but often not. *: (copy-paste between the b…
Comment linking /unicode-inspector
on “ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or Tab Delimited Text”Submitted Google Destroyed the Web as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSubmitted “What if Michael Bay did our developer recruiting video?” as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unicode Text Inspector for Developers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Unicode Character Inspector as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A business that is not pursuing profit is not a business as a story · 1 points
HN discussion