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sgo.to is a personal blog at code.sgo.to about programming and web. Since 2020, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Show HN: Typograms, Markdown-like renderer for ASCII diagrams”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The sgo.to blog is a developer's personal site whose posts cover Typograms, a Markdown-like renderer for ASCII diagrams, and formalising constitutions in Metamath. HN commenters link it mainly as the Typograms reference.
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?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-07
- Show HN: Typograms, Markdown-like renderer for ASCII diagrams2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-18
- /2021/01/06/brazil.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-02
What Hacker News says?
https://code.sgo.to
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on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted Show HN: Typograms, Markdown-like renderer for ASCII diagrams as a story · 140 points
HN discussionMine is a massive amount of fun to me. I learn a massive amount from it: https://code.sgo.to/ .
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on “Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?”Submitted People of SHA as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThere are not many other ascii diagramming tools (ascii to diagram) Typogram https://code.sgo.to/typograms/#installation Markdeep https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/ svg bob editors https://ivanceras.github.io/bob-editor/ https://mbarkhau.github.io/asciigrid/ Ditaa https://ditaa.sourceforge.net/ Goat https://github.com/blampe/goat Protocol https://www.luismg.com/protocol/ (dsl to ascii) https://diagon.arthursonzogn…
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on “Show HN: Mermaid ASCII Diagrams”Submitted Chrome University 2019 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI build something similar recently inspired by Francois original post. Some studies here: https://code.sgo.to/2021/06/14/sha256.html https://code.sgo.to/2021/06/14/avatars.html
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on “Representing SHA-256 Hashes as Avatars”Submitted Zero Knowledge Proofs (2024) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIn the section on Line Ends, https://code.sgo.to/typograms/ shows a box surrounded by arrows and a dot surrounded by arrows. The arrows that point down (down and left, down, and down and right) are rendering the arrow heads as ascii V's. That seems different than elsewhere on the page. \ | / \ vvv / \ | / v+-----+v vvv ->| |<- ->*<- ^+-----+^ ^^^ / ^^^ \ / | \ / | \
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on “Show HN: Typograms, Markdown-like renderer for ASCII diagrams”Submitted Identity Is Who You Are as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is pretty nice if you have an editor with block mode (like vim) and you are faster with a keyboard than a mouse (most programmers). It integrates well with text based version control and degrades gracefully in that users who don't have the tools and are just looking at the source can probably still read it, and even edit it. I tried using this for the control flow diagrams in V8's regexp implementation, which a…
Comment linking /2022/06/20/typographic-diagrams.html
on “Show HN: Typograms, Markdown-like renderer for ASCII diagrams”Submitted Procedurally Generated Avatars as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOn YAML-like diagrams, I think you are looking for mermaid [1]. I wrote down here [2] how typograms compare to mermaid [2] in terms of trade-offs. [1] https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid [2] https://code.sgo.to/typograms/#related
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on “Show HN: Typograms, Markdown-like renderer for ASCII diagrams”Submitted Chromium University Fall 2020 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYeah, agreed that they are hard to edit if you working by yourself, but disagreed if you are working collaboratively. On "may be like an IETF proposal."", that's precisely where I've been using them the most :) https://fedidcg.github.io/FedCM Not for everybody, I agree, but it is kinda of ironic that you mentioned "may be like an IETF proposal." :) Also, technical blog posts, e.g. https://code.sgo.to/2022/04/11/meta…
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on “Show HN: Typograms, Markdown-like renderer for ASCII diagrams”Submitted WebID as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHi Sam, you are completely right: the next step after the Metamath definitions and theorems for the constitutions should be very similar to your [1]. Based on your answer I compiled a list of perhaps useful links for you: [2]. Would you be so kind as to send me an email from your personal email address? I have a catchall address: anything at my username dot com. [1] https://code.sgo.to/2021/01/06/brazil.html [2] htt…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)”Ah, that's quite interesting! I'm going through a similar process of formalization, but starting from Wikipedia (but law did indeed cross my mind as a good candidate for formalization too). I'm also starting from a set-theoretic-like starting point, but am using Discourse Representation Theory to express it in a higher level language that is a subset of english. https://code.sgo.to/2021/01/06/brazil.html Find on twi…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate? (April 2022)”I've been using SVG bob as a wasm binary. Here is a demo: https://code.sgo.to/2021/12/07/ascii-diagrams.html
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on “Ask HN: Is there a tool to generate binary protocol figures out of a spec?”I wrote something somewhat similar here: https://code.sgo.to/2021/06/14/avatars.html
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on “Show HN: Self-hosted service for creating random avatars”https://code.sgo.to/2019/08/01/the-axiomatic-force-conjectur...
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on “How have you found purpose in your life?”https://code.sgo.to
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”A few early explorations on a similar idea: https://code.sgo.to/2021/07/02/english--.html https://code.sgo.to/2020/08/31/syntactic-theory.html https://code.sgo.to/2020/09/16/semantics.html
Comment linking /2020/09/16/semantics.html
on “Linguistics and Programming Languages (2006)”Here is how chrome does it: https://code.sgo.to/2020/12/16/chromium-university-fall-2020...
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on “Ask HN: How does your company onboard engineers?”