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vasilevp / aboriginal

aboriginal

Aboriginal Generics: the future is here!

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4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
188GitHub stars
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Aboriginal Generics: the future is here!

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-10-08 13:05:43 UTC to 2024-09-10 21:51:07 UTC.

0122020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211

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I had a beautiful vision when programming my keyboard. The style at the time was to write a massive array in C with the keycodes for the various layers. I put commented out box drawing characters between the lines to delineate where the keys are. I wanted to use the C Preprocessor to #define the thin vertical box drawing character as a comma, but somehow that was out of the range of acceptable characters. If I had that, then my source would be 1% more readable to me, the only person who's ever going to use it. https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/compare/master...perkee:... I still use tons of box drawing characters in comments. I'm actually writing a little doodad to let me edit them fluidly then copy them into my block comments, because a truth table is easy to read! Your comment also reminds me of the introduction of type parameters/gen
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erics in Go via the Canadian Aboriginal syllabary for "po" and "pa" ("ᐸ" and "ᐳ") https://github.com/vasilevp/aboriginal
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