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ʞ.cc is a personal blog at xn--rpa.cc about programming and writing. Since 2017, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A long essay on ANSI escape codes and terminal control that argues against using ncurses. HN readers link it as background for writing terminal and TUI programs.
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?
- Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2019-08-24
- Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (2018)5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-09-10
- Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-02
What Hacker News says?
> http://%CA%9E.cc/irl/term.html Link is broken (malformed); should be (I think) http://xn--rpa.cc/irl/term.html .
Comment linking /irl/term.html
on “Writing Programs with Ncurses”Submitted Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals as a story · 377 points
HN discussionrelated: "On Terminal Control" https://xn--rpa.cc/irl/term.html
Comment linking /irl/term.html
on “Writing Programs with Ncurses”Submitted Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (2018) as a story · 70 points
HN discussionWhen I saw this message I was reminded of a post I read recently: http://xn--rpa.cc/irl/term.html Here's how it starts: "so here's a short tutorial on ansi escape codes and terminal control, because you philistines won't stop using ncurses and oh my god WHY ARE WE STILL USING NCURSES IT IS THE TWENTY FIRST FUCKING CENTURY"
Comment linking /irl/term.html
on “Ask HN: Recommendations for Good TUI Libraries (Text User Interface)?”Submitted Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals as a story · 5 points
HN discussion> minimal 50 Go dependencies for TUI is crazy. Recommend reading https://xn--rpa.cc/irl/term.html
Comment linking /irl/term.html
on “Show HN: A Daily Typing Challenge in the TUI”Submitted Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (but were afraid to ask) as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> The catch: the shell normally puts the terminal in *cooked mode,* Yeah, that's not the name of the mode. In this sense, it's "canonical mode". Description reads like AI slop where technical content was reformatted into marketing/PRspeak. It feels like a 30 year old PR representative desperately trying to twist any kind of technical language specifically to pander to the AAVE-derived slang of the younger set of int…
Comment linking /irl/term.html
on “Doom, Played over Curl”Submitted Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (but were afraid to ask) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (but were afraid to ask) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (but were afraid to ask) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Terminal Control as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything_on_terminals_colour_codes_and_control as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Infrastructure 101 or, 1,001 Fun Ways Mastodon Could And Probably Will End Badly as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stateful CSS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shebangs and busybox, and why it's impossible to write portable shell scripts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ansiglot – Try curling the website on the terminal as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals as a story · 1 points
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