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Jirka's notes
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Jirka's notes is a personal blog at jirkasnotes.wordpress.com about programming and systems. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “XTerm Does Graphics Sort Of”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these notes on terminal graphics, such as a post on xterm's vector graphics terminal emulation (Tektronix) and a demo page. The linked posts cover obscure terminal features.
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.
Just another WordPress.com site
Most-linked posts?
- XTerm Does Graphics Sort Of3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-01-21
What Hacker News says?
xterm has a vector graphics terminal emulator, although I've never seen any application that uses it. https://jirkasnotes.wordpress.com/2019/07/17/xterm-does-grap... Edit: a better demo: https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/tektronix.html
Comment linking /2019/07/17/xterm-does-graphics-sort-of/
on “Best command-line-only video games (2019)”Submitted XTerm Does Graphics Sort Of as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted XTerm emulation of Tektronix 4014 vector graphics as a story · 2 points
HN discussion