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Comment by ghostpepper | Hacker News Reader

off topic but I would love a version of this with a more "plain" colors/ punctuation/formatting. finding it very hard to read / navigate

anyway the content looks good so will try to find time to sit down and read this "essay" soon

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Some actual visual examples would've been nice, too. There is just text that describes what it would look like but, as we all know, one picture is worth a thousand words.

All the code is there. Even a multiframe GIF or video capture wouldn't do their code (and blog post/rant) complete justice.

The final example is both a total treat and a beast. I encourage anyone with any interest to chuck the code into GCC and behold the interactive experience for themself.

I see these comments on many links from here. There are extensions or reader mode in your browser. At least that would take care of the colors. In Vivaldi there are additional 'Page Actions' to turn a page to gray scale etc.

The colors are very distracting on my monitor.

> The colors are very distracting on my monitor.

It's interesting, because I sometimes also find colors distracting, so for my Vim and other terminal tools I make an intensive use of text attributes (like bold, italic, underline and their various combinations)

Your comment may incentivize me to release my monochrome vimrc: it looks quite good on mintty/msys2 or Windows Terminal, and still very decent with xterm!

I’d love to see it; I’m a heavy vim user

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