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John Bradley, author of xv, has died

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Re: John Bradley, author of xv, has died

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Post by bombcar »

frankwiles wrote: post #66
linsomniac wrote: post #21

To expand on this a little bit: I had a friend that wanted to scan the cover of his album to start selling copies of it online. This would have been in like 1995 maybe. I went out and bought a HP ScanJet and wrote a command-line program run the scanner and grab that image for him. I started thinking about making a GUI companion to it. I kept thinking "I need to do this like xv does, I need to do that like xv does." I…

:waves: just saw tummy.com doesn’t resolve anymore. End of an era for sure.

uh oh tummy!

Re: John Bradley, author of xv, has died

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Post by pjbk »

I mostly learned programming GUI applications, in Xwindow and in general, studying the code of xv. The GUI controls were written from scratch using X resources and the code quality was top notch. I remember printing the full source code back in the winter break of 1994 at my university printers since I was going on vacations with my family and I was going to be completely disconnected. I studied the code writing side notes every time I had a moment to relax. Good times. Many thanks, John.

Re: John Bradley, author of xv, has died

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Post by [deleted] »

BobBagwill wrote: post #55
microtherion wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been wondering about that as well. It appears he & Vox Day were friends/collaborators and may have shared some political views: https://postcardsfromtheageofreason.com/2026/03/01/bpr1/

good athlete != good person good actor != good person good writer != good person good programmer != good person good person != nice person nice person != talented person TANJ TANSTAAFL SLATFATF

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Re: John Bradley, author of xv, has died

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Post by zeusdclxvi »

tzs wrote: post #58
paulpauper wrote: post #34

I am confused why this goes to a tribute page to a musician when everyone is talking about a software developer?

So far only two linkable reports of his death have been found. The other is on a Twitter-like site that is so full of anti-semite, white nationalist, and similar content and has so little of anything else that it makes Twitter look like a far left hang out. Bradley wrote xv a long time ago and appears to be better known for his later work, including his music. Here's how he described himself on Soundcloud [1]: > Guit…

Almost everything on the sidebar of vox day's site is a dead link too

Re: John Bradley, author of xv, has died

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Post by eichin »

fullstop wrote: post #32

Sometimes you see credits and say "Oh, wow, I didn't know that they were involved with that!?" For John Bradley, it is xv and xcalc. For Hisham Muhammad it is htop and LuaRocks. And for Jason Donenfeld it is wireguard and cgit. Perhaps some of you have other examples.

Matthias Wandel - I'd used jhead for years, and I've watched "that experimental woodworking guy on youtube" for years - it was a bit of a mental "record scratch" when I realized they were actually the same guy.

Re: John Bradley, author of xv, has died

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Post by krapp »

wk_end wrote: post #45
cdwhite wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Vox Day may be a familiar name to folks who were paying attention to the SF / fantasy world tenish years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_Day

Between Gab and Vox Day, is no one else writing about this guy except the extreme right? Is there not a better source available?

How many sources for the man's death would there be? It seems his only notability is writing a piece of software that let's be frank not even most Linux users have heard of and fronting a band that from what I can tell primarily appeals to incels and neo-nazis and only seems to have 16 listeners on Spotify.

People like this only get "better sources" when they go on a shooting spree.

Re: John Bradley, author of xv, has died

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Post by cwyers »

tzs wrote: post #58
paulpauper wrote: post #34

I am confused why this goes to a tribute page to a musician when everyone is talking about a software developer?

So far only two linkable reports of his death have been found. The other is on a Twitter-like site that is so full of anti-semite, white nationalist, and similar content and has so little of anything else that it makes Twitter look like a far left hang out. Bradley wrote xv a long time ago and appears to be better known for his later work, including his music. Here's how he described himself on Soundcloud [1]: > Guit…

I was wondering why HN was linking to Vox Day. The answer "because the alternative is worse" is probably the most justifiable one I can think of.

Re: John Bradley, author of xv, has died

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Post by Rebelgecko »

tkel wrote: post #64
tzs wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So far only two linkable reports of his death have been found. The other is on a Twitter-like site that is so full of anti-semite, white nationalist, and similar content and has so little of anything else that it makes Twitter look like a far left hang out. Bradley wrote xv a long time ago and appears to be better known for his later work, including his music. Here's how he described himself on Soundcloud [1]: > Guit…

The current site "voxday" also claims a lot that Trump is "fake" as in, not the real Trump. Odd, I guess that's one of the delusions of the schizophrenic part of the far right?

He was a big Qanon guy at one point too
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