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Jeffrey Lim
Personal blog · roartindon.blogspot.comprogrammingsystems
Jeffrey Lim's personal blog at roartindon.blogspot.com covers programming and systems. Since 2014, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “20 years of Impulse Tracker”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jeffrey Lim's 20th-anniversary posts on Impulse Tracker, the old music tracker, covering its history, text-mode visuals and source code release. Comments cite them as references rather than praise them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- 20 years of Impulse Tracker6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2014-02-16
What Hacker News says?
I believe the old music software Impulse Tracker did something like this. It was in text mode, yet had smooth mouse cursors, audio visualizations and other "graphical" things. http://roartindon.blogspot.com/2014/02/20-years-of-impulse-t... (more detail from the author in the comments)
Comment linking /2014/02/20-years-of-impulse-tracker.html
on “Pixel graphics in terminal”Submitted Boosting zopfli performance as a story · 104 points
HN discussionNote that this source code was originally released back in 2014 on bitbucket as a mercurial repository. Looks like he’s now moved it to GitHub. Here’s the original announcement http://roartindon.blogspot.com/2014/10/20-years-of-impulse-t...
Comment linking /2014/10/20-years-of-impulse-tracker-part-3.html?m=1
on “Impulse Tracker source code now available on GitHub”Submitted 20 Years of Impulse Tracker, Part 4 – full source code as a story · 65 points
HN discussionAs far as I can tell, the LICENSE.TXT ( https://github.com/jthlim/impulse-tracker/blob/main/LICENSE.... ) is the 3-clause BSD license, meaning proper FOSS and not just "source available" which is becoming more popular. Bit more about the history of IT (and more) in the blogpost celebrating the "20th anniversary", written by the software's author: http://roartindon.blogspot.com/2014/02/20-years-of-impulse-t...
Comment linking /2014/02/20-years-of-impulse-tracker.html
on “Impulse Tracker source code now available on GitHub”Submitted 20 Years of Impulse Tracker, Part 3 as a story · 63 points
HN discussionYup. The codebase is extremely intuitive. For those who need a link the GitHub is at https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite . For those wondering how it's possible for it to look consistent across platforms and maintain that crisp, retro look, its' running Allegro 4 [1]. Libraries like SDL, Allegro, SFML, etc. are normally associated with games, but there are cases where it can used for creative tools as well. Schism…
Comment linking /2014/02/20-years-of-impulse-tracker.html
on “Aseprite: cross-platform, open source sprite and pixel art tool”Submitted Encoding Uniform Scale in Quaternions and Dual Quaternions as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted 20 years of Impulse Tracker as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted 20 Years of Impulse Tracker as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 20 years of Impulse Tracker as a story · 1 points
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