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jdhao's digital space
Personal blog · jdhao.github.ioprogramming
jdhao's digital space is a personal blog at jdhao.github.io about programming. Since 2021, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its technical how-to posts, such as a 2018 note on true color in tmux and Neovim and a 2019 post on EXIF image rotation data. The comments only cite these posts and say nothing about the writing.
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?
e: Huh, didn't even modify my tmux config and it worked on a restart of the terminal. Do you have any more information? Having a bit of difficulty figuring this out, found this for neovim [0] but doesn't seem to be working for me. [0]: https://jdhao.github.io/2018/10/19/tmux_nvim_true_color/
Comment linking /2018/10/19/tmux_nvim_true_color/
on “Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor”Submitted Using Neovim for Three Years as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFor JPEG this is the EXIF Orientation flag: https://jdhao.github.io/2019/07/31/image_rotation_exif_info/ It allows the camera to write almost its output without considering how you're holding the camera, and then write just three bits to indicate how it should be displayed. (It should be two bits, since the third logical bit is for mirroring, except the specific flag values they chose for the non-mirrored rotations…
Comment linking /2019/07/31/image_rotation_exif_info/
on “A field guide to the central, creeping section of the San Andreas Fault (2006)”Submitted I read the nvim v0.8 release note so you do not have to as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Converting Markdown to Beautiful PDF with Pandoc (2019) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Mathematics behind Font Shapes (2018) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Vim-Plug to Packer.nvim as a story · 2 points
HN discussion