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A Nickel's Worth

Personal blog · a-nickels-worth.blogspot.comprogramming

A Nickel's Worth is a personal blog at a-nickels-worth.blogspot.com about programming. Since 2007, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Scripting in Common Lisp”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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18mentions?
14HN people?
2007–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2011

Most-linked posts?

  1. Scripting in Common Lisp
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2008-02-15
  2. Macrophobia
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-09-24
  3. Rogue ported to Common Lisp
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-07-09
  4. Optimizing Common Lisp
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-04-28
  5. A Guide to Naming Variables
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. fluffster · 2009-06-16
    HT to Jacob Gabrielson - http://a-nickels-worth.blogspot.com/2008/05/ulrich-dreppers-...

    Comment linking /2008/05/ulrich-dreppers-memory-paper-and-cl.html

    on “What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory”
  2. pacaro · 2016-05-13

    Submitted A Guide to Naming Variables as a story · 179 points

    HN discussion
  3. schneiderscode · 2019-10-20
    When people try to migrate their shell scripts to a friendlier scripting language I'm always reminded of this post about "Bruby"[1]. It's a compelling argument to move to something comfortable but it also means you're at risk of just using Python's easy "if" and string-parsing logic when you're still relying on shell script tools for the core functionality. [1] https://a-nickels-worth.blogspot.com/2016/05/please-don…

    Comment linking /2016/05/please-dont-write-bruby.html

    on “Replacing Shell Scripts with Python”
  4. gnosis · 2011-01-12

    Submitted Macrophobia as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  5. arvid · 2008-07-09

    Submitted Rogue ported to Common Lisp as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  6. Goladus · 2007-09-24

    Submitted Macrophobia as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  7. rayvega · 2010-09-17

    Submitted Scripting in Common Lisp as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  8. alexrustic · 2022-01-26

    Submitted Losing big is easy as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. byrneseyeview · 2008-04-28

    Submitted Optimizing Common Lisp as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. rayvega · 2010-09-15

    Submitted Everything in Moderation as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. MrBuddyCasino · 2022-07-25

    Submitted A Guide to Naming Variables as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. gnosis · 2011-02-16

    Submitted Optimizing Common Lisp as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. gnosis · 2011-01-11

    Submitted Lessons learned from porting Rogue to Common Lisp as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. gnosis · 2011-01-11

    Submitted Scripting in Common Lisp as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. nickb · 2007-12-23

    Submitted Effective .emacs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. ballenf · 2018-05-17

    Submitted A Guide to Naming Variables (2016) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. luu · 2015-05-08

    Submitted The Icarus Ultimatum as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. iamelgringo · 2008-02-15

    Submitted Scripting in Common Lisp as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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