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Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us
The goal of Explanations is to try to allow people to play with fun parts of computers. Graphics, compression, audio. The tagline is my biggest inspiration: "Play, don't show", riffing off the typical "Show, don't tell" rule of writers and authors everywhere. Why bother giving a diagram when I give you an inspector…
- Points
- 456
- HN comments
- 351
- Submissions
- 6
- Cited by
- 9 commenters
Systems & PerformanceWeb & Frontend2016
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 2016 | Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us by b3h3moth | 456 | 44 |
| Sep 22, 2019 | Understanding the working of X11 from the ground up (2017) by signa11 | 443 | 132 |
| Jul 11, 2014 | XPlain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us by emillon | 329 | 65 |
| Aug 18, 2020 | Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017) by goranmoomin | 326 | 89 |
| Dec 29, 2013 | Xplain: Explaining X11 for the rest of us by momo-reina | 108 | 19 |
| Jul 15, 2014 | Xplain – Explaining X11 with an interactive X11 browser implementation by albertzeyer | 76 | 2 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 9 Hacker News comments by 9 different people, from Sep 2016 to Jan 2023.
Most recent:
- MonkeyClub · Jan 10, 2023
- genpfault · Jul 20, 2022
- forgotpwd16 · Feb 2, 2021
- m463 · Apr 26, 2019
- geofft · May 13, 2018
- Jasper_ · Aug 30, 2017
