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Yu-Jie Lin

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Yu-Jie Lin's personal blog at blog.yjl.im covers programming and systems. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2012

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

Why HN links it

The linked post covers ascii-pony and systempony, tools that show an ASCII pony on bash login. A commenter links it while discussing ponysay, a related Linux tool.

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.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. On a further tangent, that reminds me of two of my favorite things to install on a Linux system, ponysay and ascii-pony/systempony. I set each of my systems to a different character to show on bash logins with systempony (WSL instances included) https://github.com/erkin/ponysay https://blog.yjl.im/2016/01/ascii-pony-systempony-screenshot...

    Comment linking /2016/01/ascii-pony-systempony-screenshot.html

    on “TTE: Terminal Text Effects”
  2. Submitted Xkcd comics in Braille as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Three years with Gentoo as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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