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Lubutu is a personal blog at lubutu.com about programming and writing. Since 2011, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Write Out Unicode in Octal”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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17mentions?
8HN people?
2011–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Lubutu for technical posts on UTF-8 and writing Unicode in octal, and a piece on a Vim-inspired editor with Scheme scripting. Most comments cite the posts as sources rather than judging them.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Write Out Unicode in Octal
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-02
  2. Ivo – a reimagined Unix terminal system
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-12-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. As the continuation bytes always bear the payload in the low 6 bits, Connor Lane Smith suggests writing them out in octal[1]. Though that 3 octets of UTF-8 precisely cover the BMP is also quite convenient and easy to remember (but perhaps don’t use that like MySQL did[2]?..). [1] http://www.lubutu.com/soso/write-out-unicode-in-octal [2] https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/mysql-utf8mb4

    Comment linking /soso/write-out-unicode-in-octal

    on “How UTF-8 Works”
  2. Submitted Ivo – a reimagined Unix terminal system as a story · 284 points

    HN discussion
  3. I've noticed that the NUL-termination problem [1] has come up a number of times in these comments. If you want a solution to this that isn't so drastic as an object system, perhaps take a look at Usul [2], non-POSIX 'tabular' Unix utilities which use an AWK-style $RS. [1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4369699 [2]: http://lubutu.com/soso/usul

    Comment linking /soso/usul

    on “Next generation Unix pipe by Alex Larsson”
  4. Submitted An Introduction to Condition Handling for Non-Lispers as a story · 104 points

    HN discussion
  5. If anyone's interested, a while back I put together a table of commands available in various versions of ed, from 1st edition UNIX up to POSIX, as well as sam. It's largely academic, but I did find it interesting how features crept in. http://lubutu.com/misc/ed-languages

    Comment linking /misc/ed-languages

    on “Actually using Ed”
  6. Submitted A history of S_IFMT as a story · 94 points

    HN discussion
  7. akkartik · 2012-10-29Recommends
    That's a great article. Do you know when it was written? It's weird how it's just dangling there with all of 2 sentences of context at http://lubutu.com . Also, how do you do the superscripts?!

    Comment linking /

    on “HappyEdit: A Vim-inspired, modern, open source text editor”
  8. Submitted The Linguistic Interface as a story · 58 points

    HN discussion
  9. > If I were going to change any single thing about Vim, it would be to make MzScheme scripting support a first class citizen, and slowly re-engineer the backend to be more Emacs styled. Core C (or whatever, but C out of momentum) functions with the rest of the system build up in Scheme. Thank god there are people who share this vision! I have solemnly promised to myself that I will write a new vim in exactly this fa…

    Comment linking /idea/ivo

    on “HappyEdit: A Vim-inspired, modern, open source text editor”
  10. Submitted On Structural Regexes – the theory behind multi-editing as a story · 30 points

    HN discussion
  11. I don't think that's a fair comparison. Here's a toy trie implementation I've just thrown together in Haskell. It may not be perfect, but I think it's more comparable to your Python. http://lubutu.com/media/temp/trie.hs

    Comment linking /media/temp/trie.hs

    on “The Day Python Embarassed Imperative Programming”
  12. Submitted Lambda’s New Coat: 21st century syntactic Mexps as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted An introduction to the UTF encodings as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Write Out Unicode in Octal as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Condition Handling for Non-Lispers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted A history of S_IFMT as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted One Hundred Years of Laziness as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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