Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (2018)
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#3that site has great personal branding. recall seeing other articles from lexi halle on the feediverse some time ago and immediately recognized it.
great content too.
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#4I was just reading up an ANSI escape sequences a few days ago, this is gold.
I adore the format and writing style too.
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#7That’s pretty nasty - this article is factually incorrect in probably the worst way: the code will work on author’s computer, but not for other people [0]
Not to mention that it is missing “good citizen” features like turning off colors when stdout is not a tty.
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#8ncurses is a lot more readable than just dropping raw control codes into your source code, and it works, whereas raw control codes might work and often don't.
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#9Can barely read the content with that colorscheme.
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#10The lack of attention to (or, rather, the complete disregard of) proper capitalization is ridiculous. This is the second post I'm seeing in two days that feature this "style". Quite a disturbing trend, if you ask me.