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d_on Show HN: Termtosvg – Record terminal sessions as SVG animations

> the major issue with SVG animations is that Microsoft doesn't plan to ever include support for them in Edge.

And here I thought the Edge team left behind the mistakes of IE.

d_on Does Column Width of 80 Make Sense in 2018?

Small screen? Again, 17in is rather difficult to come by in a laptop.

The real fallacy is in denigrating the side-by-side workflow. Just having every window be fullscreen would be madness.

d_on Haskell’s State monad is not a monad (2014)

Most functions we write are indeed total.

d_on Does Column Width of 80 Make Sense in 2018?

I just checked. I have a 17 inch laptop screen (uncommon and has to be sought for these days). To hit 120 characters on two terminals side-by-side requires 9pt font. That's definitely not something everyone can manage.

I think 120 might even be pushing the limits of conscientiousness.