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z3bra.org
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z3bra.org is a personal blog at blog.z3bra.org about systems, programming and productivity. Since 2014, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “You are the WM”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link z3bra's blog for posts on showing images in terminals, Unix-style tooling, and writing a window manager as a shell script. Most comments link to posts without judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2014/01/images-in-terminal.html3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-09-06
- You are the WM3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-08-05
- Hand-crafted Containers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-25
- Avoid workspaces: Virtual desktops considered harmful2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-20
What Hacker News says?
unaffiliated plug for mintty https://mintty.github.io/ Also; Cygwin, XWin and a real copy of XTerm/Gnome-Terminal/etc can give you the entire capabilities of a native terminal. Including weird hacks like w3m's image previews. https://blog.z3bra.org/2014/01/images-in-terminal.html The "downside" is native windows console apps will have a bad time with these terminal emulators.
Comment linking /2014/01/images-in-terminal.html
on “Windows gets a new terminal”Submitted You are the WM as a story · 127 points
HN discussionI've spent a lot of time messing with terminal UIs, and I feel that the experience could be improved hugely just by adding a couple new escape sequences, for right aligned text and for filling to the rest of the width of the terminal with a character. Thanks to terminfo this shouldn't affect backwards compatibility. I certainly don't think a full rewrite is necessary (we managed to tack on mouse support and even ima…
Comment linking /2014/01/images-in-terminal.html
on “Colorize Your CLI”Submitted Hand-crafted Containers as a story · 6 points
HN discussionhttp://blog.z3bra.org/2014/01/images-in-terminal.html https://askubuntu.com/questions/97542/how-do-i-make-my-termi...
Comment linking /2014/01/images-in-terminal.html
on “Colorize Your CLI”Submitted Avoid workspaces: Virtual desktops considered harmful as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSorry for the late reply. I found it, I got the method from this blog post [1] initally. Also see [2]. However, I'm sad to say that when I tried this again rn, it didn't work anymore. (I know for a fact it used to work great because I used to use it.) The funny thing is, ranger's image preview still works for me (same terminal and everything), so I guess one could start going through the ranger source code to see ho…
Comment linking /2014/01/images-in-terminal.html
on “Black Screen: A modern terminal emulator based on Electron”Submitted Hand-crafted containers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI'm a big fan of z3bra's posts. They focus on the unix way, minimalism, and understand your tools. Another good link is http://blog.z3bra.org/2014/03/toolbox.html where he describes some unusual but useful commands.
Comment linking /2014/03/toolbox.html
on “You are the WM”Submitted Avoid Workspaces (2014) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHave you heard of wendy[1]? Might be useful, I'm not entirely sure if it suits your case because my experience with inotify is limited to playing around with it and nothing substantial coming from it. 1: http://z3bra.org/wendy/ (Author's blog post: http://blog.z3bra.org/2015/03/under-wendys-dress.html )
Comment linking /2015/03/under-wendys-dress.html
on “Ask HN: What are your best shell scripts that you use?”Submitted Desktop Streaming (2016) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWould be awesome for someone with the knowledge to transfer this for something like w3m and eventually port some of it to ranger ( http://blog.z3bra.org/2014/01/images-in-terminal.html# ).
Comment linking /2014/01/images-in-terminal.html
on “HTerm – The Graphical Terminal”Submitted You are the WM as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHm, was there this morning. http://blog.z3bra.org/2015/01/you-are-the-wm.html has some nice examples.
Comment linking /2015/01/you-are-the-wm.html
on “Wmutils: write your window manager as a shell script”Submitted You are the WM as a story · 1 points
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