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Chuan Ji
Personal blog · jichu4n.com/postsprogrammingsystems
Chuan Ji's personal blog at jichu4n.com covers programming and systems. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Chuan Ji's posts on how X window managers work and on which fonts dominate the web. One commenter calls the X window manager post a favourite and most helpful resource.
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.
What Hacker News says?
This is also one of my favorite and most helpful posts I’ve found working with X so far: http://jichu4n.com/posts/how-x-window-managers-work-and-how-...
Comment linking /posts/how-x-window-managers-work-and-how-to-write-one-part-i/
on “X Window System Basics (2014)”Submitted How X Window Managers Work, and How to Write One (2014) as a story · 276 points
HN discussionI think your comment is misleading. Most fonts in use on the web today are actually proprietary and not open source. https://jichu4n.com/posts/the-most-popular-fonts-on-the-web-... -- Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, Georgia, Helvetica are all proprietary.
Comment linking /posts/the-most-popular-fonts-on-the-web-a-study/
on “I had no idea that one company basically owns every font”Submitted How to Set Default Fonts and Font Aliases on Linux as a story · 1 points
HN discussion