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Sven's Blog

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Sven's Blog is a personal blog at slangkamp.wordpress.com about programming and design. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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2012–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this post, "10 years of Krita", as a source for the history of the Krita image editor and its development alongside GIMP. The comment cites it for dates and timeline only.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

from the depths of Calligra and Krita

What Hacker News says?

  1. Krita was started in 1999, only four years after GIMP. For most of their existence, these two programs have been developed in parallel. http://slangkamp.wordpress.com/2009/05/23/10-years-of-krita/ http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi/kde/krita_10_years.h... Part of the reason Krita development has accelerated massively in the last couple of years is that its team decided on a clear mission statement at some point…

    Comment linking /2009/05/23/10-years-of-krita/

    on “FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video]”
  2. Submitted Comparing Krita packaging size as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Why having more office suites is a good thing as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted The problem with supporting Windows as a story · 1 points

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