Isn't this a 35 year old trick? I could have sworn I've known about it for at least 25
You've just got to think of and apply them in the right context.
Most of the world's major breakthroughs are basically just this.
This is something I'd expect to see done by just about anybody along with the full 8th blocks https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements on literally the first day or two of starting this kind of project.
I like positive open source threads sure, but is that what this is about or is there some extraordinary technical details I'm not seeing?
Examples of people being nice to each other in FLOSS projects is certainly something we could always use more of, sure. Is that what this is?
Yes. That's how I interpreted it, at least. (I think it's great)
https://twitter.com/charmcli/status/1320184218794795010
It's interesting to see forgotten lore or techniques reemerge. We (Charm) have just published a TUI framework called Bubble Tea and imgcat was one of the first tools that implemented it, so we were excited to see the progress and help with rendering.