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nivot.org
Personal blog · nivot.org/blogsystemsprogramming
nivot.org is a personal blog at nivot.org about systems and programming. Since 2014, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Windows 10 Console Host Enhancements”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite nivot.org posts on Windows and PowerShell, such as terminal colour support, Windows 10 shell changes, and a hand-patched .NET DLL. The comments link them as sources for their own points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Windows 10 Console Host Enhancements4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-02-06
- Windows 10 console subsystem again supports ANSI and VT100 escape sequences2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-05
What Hacker News says?
You might enjoy scoop ( http://scoop.sh ): ~ $ scoop search grep main bucket: busybox (1.24.0-TIG-1778) --> includes 'egrep' gow (0.8.0) --> includes 'egrep.exe' grep (2.5.4) nim (0.11.2) --> includes 'nimgrep.exe' pcregrep (10.20) rktools2k3 (1.0) --> includes 'qgrep.exe' ~ $ scoop install grep installing grep (2.5.4) loading http:(...)grep-2.5.4-bin.zip from cache... checking hash...ok extracting...done loading (.…
Comment linking /blog/post/2016/02/04/Windows-10-TH2-(v1511)-Console-Host-Enhancements
on “Ubuntu on Windows”Submitted Windows 10 Console Host Enhancements as a story · 65 points
HN discussion"I doubt reprogrammable 256-color mode is on microsoft's roadmap..." http://www.nivot.org/blog/post/2016/02/04/Windows-10-TH2-%28...
Comment linking /blog/post/2016/02/04/Windows-10-TH2-%28v1511%29-Console-Host-Enhancements
on “Ubuntu on Windows”Submitted Windows 10 console subsystem again supports ANSI and VT100 escape sequences as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThere is a hack to make PowerShell print vt100 colours http://www.nivot.org/blog/post/2016/02/04/Windows-10-TH2-%28... Doesn’t work for me, but works for others it seems.
Comment linking /blog/post/2016/02/04/Windows-10-TH2-%28v1511%29-Console-Host-Enhancements
on “ASCII Art Weather”I did the same for the Invoke-RestMethod cmdlet in PowerShell 3.0: http://nivot.org/blog/post/2013/05/07/PowerShell-Masochistic...
Comment linking /blog/post/2013/05/07/PowerShell-Masochistic-Assembly-Patching-for-Guts-and-Glory
on “I found a bug in the .NET framework and fixed it by hand-altering the DLL”Things are changing: * https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2014/10/07/console-im... * http://www.nivot.org/blog/post/2016/02/04/Windows-10-TH2-%28... * http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Windows10GetsAFreshCommandProm... No, it's not perfect, and PuTTY isn't always the answer, but who'd have thought https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH would ever be a thing.
Comment linking /blog/post/2016/02/04/Windows-10-TH2-%28v1511%29-Console-Host-Enhancements
on “Cash: a cross-platform implementation of Unix shell commands in JavaScript”
