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CGI Coffee

Personal blog · cgicoffee.com/blogprogrammingdesign

CGI Coffee is a personal blog at cgicoffee.com about programming and design. Since 2018, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools with Tcl/Tk”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.

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6mentions?
6HN people?
2018–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2026

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's posts on developing cross-platform CLI and GUI tools with Tcl/Tk, including the 2026 Tcl/Tk article. Comments point to it as a Tcl/Tk reference and show its interface screenshots.

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.

Here be blog where I share my experience working with all things 3D, VFX and CGI

Most-linked posts?

  1. Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools with Tcl/Tk
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-07-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. cmacleod4 · 2026-09-29
    Try https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Showcase . Also https://cgicoffee.com/blog/2026/04/tcl-tk-develop-cross-plat... (takes a little time to load).

    Comment linking /blog/2026/04/tcl-tk-develop-cross-platform-cli-gui-tools-tutorial-guide

    on “Tcl/Tk 9.1”
  2. aryonoco · 2026-08-31

    Submitted Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools with Tcl/Tk as a story · 112 points

    HN discussion
  3. inatreecrown2 · 2026-09-01
    Some of these UIs look simpler and better / more user friendly to me than the latest offerings from Apple and Microsoft. Especially this: https://cgicoffee.com/blog/content/images/2026/tcl-tk-articl... Looks like OpenBox?

    Comment linking /blog/content/images/2026/tcl-tk-article/tcltk-9-on-orangepi-2w.png

    on “Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools with Tcl/Tk”
  4. valeg · 2018-04-13

    Submitted Reality Check. What Is Nvidia RTX Technology? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. birdculture · 2026-07-29

    Submitted Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools with Tcl/Tk as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. ux266478 · 2026-07-28

    Submitted Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools with Tcl/Tk as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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