Show HN: I made a simple ASCII-art analog clock in Emacs

2 mbork_pl 0 9/8/2025, 6:18:51 PM gitlab.com ↗

Just a toy, showing how easy it is to leverage built-in Emacs features (most notably Artist mode, which provides a set of functions for creating ASCII-art vector graphics) and things like trigonometric functions and timers to create something nice.

A short blog post mentioning some background (and showing a screenshot): https://mbork.pl/2025-09-08_Emacs_Artist_clock#.

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Show HN: I made a simple ASCII-art analog clock in Emacs

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