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Christopher Stoll
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Christopher Stoll writes stollee.org, a personal blog at christopherstoll.org about programming, ai and culture. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread about an engine for MS-DOS-style interfaces on modern platforms. The one comment quotes the post's nostalgia for DOS GUIs and its idea of a CSS framework for DOS-look web pages.
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.
Some bad photography, obvious observations of technology, and sundry other topics. Mediocre rough-hewn content, all handmade, by stollee (often known as Christopher Stoll)
What Hacker News says?
> Anyone else love the look of DOS GUIs? I do. Brings back memories of Turbo-C. > It would be cool if there were a CSS framework where you could make webpages like that. A quick search brought this old project: https://github.com/6112/cursesjs Never tried that, however. Ncurses is what is used under Linux and other UNIX like systems to draw terminal based GUIs, and allows some pretty good graphics. https://en.wikipe…
Comment linking /2015/12/29/ncurses-system-performance-monitor-mac.html
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