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A System Programming Blog
Personal blog · system.joekain.comprogrammingsystems
A System Programming Blog is a personal blog at system.joekain.com about programming and systems. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Writing a Debugger”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A systems programming blog; the one linked post covers installing Rust and Cargo on FreeBSD. The single commenter cites it as a how-to for the setup.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog on user space system programming topics in C, C++, and Rust.
Most-linked posts?
- Writing a Debugger2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-29
What Hacker News says?
And there are probably packages as well if s/he doesn't want to wait a hour or so for rustc to build. This is a bit out of date but still: http://system.joekain.com/2015/07/04/rust-and-cargo-on-freeb... It's probably even easier today.
Comment linking /2015/07/04/rust-and-cargo-on-freebsd.html
on “FreeBSD 11.0 amd64 binaries”Submitted Writing a Debugger as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Demangling the Details: Symbol Resolution in Rusty Trap as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing a Debugger as a story · 1 points
HN discussion