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Oxidizing corner
Personal blog · blog.erk.devprogrammingsystems
Oxidizing corner is a personal blog at blog.erk.dev about programming and systems. Since 2022, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Bad Apple Font”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for the anifont post, which describes putting the Bad Apple animation inside a font using ligatures. Other comments cite it in threads on fonts, Unicode fleurons, barcode fonts, and monkey-theorem websites.
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?
- Bad Apple Font7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2023-07-26
- RRust: A Reversible Embedded Language2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-31
What Hacker News says?
That was the first part I did, I wrote a blog about it here [0]. At the time it was also discussed on here at [1]. [0]: https://blog.erk.dev/posts/anifont/ [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37317055
Comment linking /posts/anifont/
on “Tetris Font (2020)”Submitted Bad Apple Font as a story · 13 points
HN discussionYou may already be familiar with these, but in case you're not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem > One of the earliest instances of the use of the "monkey metaphor" is that of French mathematician Émile Borel in 1913, but the first instance may have been even earlier. Jorge Luis Borges traced the history of this idea from Aristotle's On Generation and Corruption and Cicero's De Natura Deorum (On…
Comment linking /posts/anifont/
on “Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots”Submitted BadAppleFont as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSomeone implemented the Bad Apple animation inside a font https://blog.erk.dev/posts/anifont/ ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=373170550 | 177 points | Aug 2023 | 62 comments )
Comment linking /posts/anifont/
on “Libre Barcode Project”Submitted RRust: A Reversible Embedded Language as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> I wonder how far one could take it with just ligatures? Very, very far... https://blog.erk.dev/posts/anifont/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF2sn2DXjlA
Comment linking /posts/anifont/
on “Fleurons in Unicode”Submitted BadAppleFont as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bad Apple Font as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rrust: A Reversible Embedded Language as a story · 1 points
HN discussion