alt Hacker News1. I doubt anybody on HN has any interest in what your personal criteria are for reading blogs. Please, please, please let's stop polluting the comments with arguments about how a piece of software was made instead of about the thing itself.
2. I agree if you refer to TUIs that try to emulate/substitute complex GUIs, with sub-panes, dialogs, graphics, etc. I happen to love TUIs for simple text-only visualizations, though. They are usually quicker than GUIs and consistent among various OS, desktop...
> Please, please, please let's stop polluting the comments with arguments about how a piece of software was made instead of about the thing itself.
But it IS relevant how something was made! It tells us how much of the detail that's presented in code & blogpost is the authors intent, and how much of it is "filler". It tells us whether the author can answer detailed question as to why they chose a specific implementation, or novel technique, or not.
It tells us whether the author wants us to read every syllable, or whether readers are expected to let their own summarize the article for them instead (as would be the case here).
It's never worth it to spend more effort reading something than the author spent writing it. The important part is the human intent, not the filler surrounding it!