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Ted Gould

Personal blog · gould.cx/ted/blogprogrammingsystems

Ted Gould writes TedPage, a personal blog at gould.cx about programming and systems. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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4HN people?
2012–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Ted Gould's blog for his write-ups on how menu search works in the HUD interface and for a technical drawing presentation on drawing diagrams with TikZ.

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?

  1. Developer Ted Gould's description of how search the menu works: http://gould.cx/ted/blog/Searching_menus

    Comment linking /ted/blog/Searching_menus

    on “Introducing the HUD. Say hello to the future of the menu”
  2. Submitted The Case for Ubuntu Phone as a story · 99 points

    HN discussion
  3. How does this compare to Penrose? Also, has anybody tried using Inkscape [1,2] or another vector drawing tool for this? I imagine it would be faster and more intuitive than learning Tikz. [1] - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17610717/drawing-an-undi... [2] - The following appears to be part of a presentation: https://gould.cx/ted/presentations/txlf16/Technical%20Drawin...

    Comment linking /ted/presentations/txlf16/Technical%20Drawing%20with%20Inkscape.pdf

    on “LaTeX Finite Automata and State Diagrams with Tikz”
  4. Submitted TedPage: Inkscape Snap as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted TedPage: Applications under systemd as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted TedPage: Snapping Unity8 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Emergent Complexity as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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