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Not to be confused with Blink, the Chrome / chromium browser engine that was forked from Webkit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(browser_engine) https://en

by jffry 3y ago

Not to be confused with Blink, the Chrome / chromium browser engine that was forked from Webkit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(browser_engine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(browser_engine)

echelon 3y ago
That's a really unfortunate naming collision. I immediately thought this was browser tech.
- userbinator 3y ago
  I thought it was the first version of the browser engine too --- which was released in 2013. Looking at the history, this one only showed up in late 2022, so the browser engine came first.
  - echelon 3y ago
    Blink, the browser engine, was named after <blink> and its speed. It's a really clever, relevant, meaningful name. This project seems to want to be "Blinkenlights". That's a cool name. Or "Blinken" or something mainframe-related.
    - jart 3y ago
      When I originally announced this project I called it "das blinkenlights" and was quickly mobbed by a group of Germans on Reddit for misappropriating their culture (even though I was quoting The Jargon File). Normally I try to focus on cosmo corpo speak that couldn't possibly rub anyone the wrong way, which is why I like "blink" because blinking is something man has been doing for centuries, so as a word I feel that it really unites humanity rather than dividing it.
      - echelon 3y ago
        Major props on your work here! It's incredible. Who am I to bikeshed on your project and its name?
      - peterfirefly 3y ago
        I would have doubled down with "däs ßlinkënlights"...
- LoveMortuus 3y ago
  I thought it was about microcontrollers, because usually the Hello World for microcontrollers is blink - turn a LED on and off repeatedly. I guess I thought wrong.
nextlevelwizard 3y ago
Or https://github.com/blinksh/blink https://github.com/blinksh/blink which I thought this was at first.
- mike503 3y ago
  Same
buster 3y ago
Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blinkenlights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blinkenlights which i thought about first.
memsom 3y ago
"Blinkenlights" always takes me back to the BeBox - which actually had blinkenligts for CPU usage and disk activity on the front "columns" of the bezel.
Bad_CRC 3y ago
Or https://icanblink.com/ https://icanblink.com/ Blink the softphone
detrites 3y ago
Funny, the commenters saying "I thought it was...". I saw "jart" in the github URL and immediately thought it was a tiny open source commandline executable packing a host of amazing/useful functions for low-level cross-platform dev.

by jffry 3y ago

echelon 3y ago

That's a really unfortunate naming collision. I immediately thought this was browser tech.

userbinator 3y ago
I thought it was the first version of the browser engine too --- which was released in 2013. Looking at the history, this one only showed up in late 2022, so the browser engine came first.
- echelon 3y ago
  Blink, the browser engine, was named after <blink> and its speed. It's a really clever, relevant, meaningful name. This project seems to want to be "Blinkenlights". That's a cool name. Or "Blinken" or something mainframe-related.
  - jart 3y ago
    When I originally announced this project I called it "das blinkenlights" and was quickly mobbed by a group of Germans on Reddit for misappropriating their culture (even though I was quoting The Jargon File). Normally I try to focus on cosmo corpo speak that couldn't possibly rub anyone the wrong way, which is why I like "blink" because blinking is something man has been doing for centuries, so as a word I feel that it really unites humanity rather than dividing it.
    - echelon 3y ago
      Major props on your work here! It's incredible. Who am I to bikeshed on your project and its name?
    - peterfirefly 3y ago
      I would have doubled down with "däs ßlinkënlights"...
LoveMortuus 3y ago
I thought it was about microcontrollers, because usually the Hello World for microcontrollers is blink - turn a LED on and off repeatedly. I guess I thought wrong.

nextlevelwizard 3y ago

Or https://github.com/blinksh/blink https://github.com/blinksh/blink which I thought this was at first.

mike503 3y ago
Same

buster 3y ago

Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blinkenlights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blinkenlights which i thought about first.

memsom 3y ago

"Blinkenlights" always takes me back to the BeBox - which actually had blinkenligts for CPU usage and disk activity on the front "columns" of the bezel.

Bad_CRC 3y ago

Or https://icanblink.com/ https://icanblink.com/ Blink the softphone

detrites 3y ago

Funny, the commenters saying "I thought it was...". I saw "jart" in the github URL and immediately thought it was a tiny open source commandline executable packing a host of amazing/useful functions for low-level cross-platform dev.