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Oh! The Huge Manatee!
Personal blog · ohthehugemanatee.netprogrammingwriting
Oh! The Huge Manatee! is a personal blog at ohthehugemanatee.net about programming and writing. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link the author's posts on pen plotters and vinyl cutters, including a 2011 GPGL reference, when discussing plotter and cutter protocols such as HPGL.
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?
I don't have a vinyl cutter yet. I'm looking at the Silhouette Curio, Portrait 2, and the Brother Design N Cut. I like my other Brother products and would ordinarily choose them, but I don't know anything about their protocol. Silhouette has been very open about their protocol in the past[1]. They use a variant of HPGL and there are a few open source tools that allow you to drive their plotters/cutters. [1] https://…
Comment linking /2011/07/gpgl-reference-courtesy-of-graphtec/
on “An intro to Pen Plotters”Submitted Markov Text Analysis for Fun and Profit as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIt's 14 years old at this point, but here you go: https://www.ohthehugemanatee.net/2011/07/gpgl-reference-cour...
Comment linking /2011/07/gpgl-reference-courtesy-of-graphtec/
on “So what's the difference between plotted and printed artwork?”Submitted "The Internship" & Google as a story · 2 points
HN discussion