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Aleksandr Petrosyan
Personal blog · appetrosyan.github.io/postsprogramming
Aleksandr Petrosyan's personal blog at appetrosyan.github.io covers programming. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these posts on Emacs internals and the Emacs Widget Library, including a critique and a proposed SDL-based redesign. One commenter calls the posts very insightful.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A. Petrosyan's Blog
What Hacker News says?
This is worth undertaking. macOS's stricter approach to handling some questionable hacks in Emacs could improve the codebase across all platforms. The PGTK frontend for Emacs (the Wayland-native frontend) was derived from the macOS version for instance. It replaced much of the messy X11 code with a cleaner, more modular Cairo-based frontend, which could be further enhanced by adopting a cross-platform, more future-p…
Comment linking /posts/emacs-widget
on “Emacs: The macOS Bug”Submitted The Emacs Widget Toolkit as a story · 48 points
HN discussionHi. I just migrated my blog to Hugo yesterday. The correct link is: https://appetrosyan.github.io/posts/emacs-widget/
Comment linking /posts/emacs-widget/
on “The Emacs Widget Toolkit”For those interested, this guy is revamping the Emacs widget library with something more modern and platform agnostic, based on SDL: https://appetrosyan.github.io/posts/ His posts are very insightful.
Comment linking /posts/
on “The Emacs Widget Library: A Critique and Case Study”