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Alex Peattie
Personal blog · alexpeattie.com/blogprogrammingcareer
Alex Peattie's personal blog at alexpeattie.com covers programming and career. Since 2011, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Establishing the minimum number of guesses needed to (always) win Wordle”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-23, 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 Alex Peattie's blog for technical posts on programming and puzzle-solving, such as Wordle-solving optimality and a guide to editing git commit dates.
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.
Hi there! I’m an engineer leader, former founder, speaker, writer and coach.
Most-linked posts?
- Establishing the minimum number of guesses needed to (always) win Wordle3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-01-26
What Hacker News says?
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)”Submitted Working with dates in Git as a story · 6 points
HN discussionBeautiful. This is exactly what I was hoping to see. This sub-link is especially good. https://alexpeattie.com/blog/establishing-minimum-guesses-wo... I really really need to learn how to use an SAT solver. The problems they can solve is downright magical as far as I’m concerned. Does anyone know of some good tutorials?
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on “Wordle-solving state of the art: all optimality results so far”Submitted Associate all source code files with your editor in macOS using duti as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI found that these were actually a bit tricky to convert to PDF, with even (normally) reliable tools like Calibre outputting PDFs with really small text... I stumbled across mobi2html, part of mobiperl ( https://dev.mobileread.com/trac/mobiperl ). Apart from a couple of character encoding bugs, it seems to do a good job. I've uploaded the eBooks as html here: http://alexpeattie.com/stackoverflow/html/ I've then been…
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on “eBooks compiled from top StackOverflow topics/answers”Submitted Establishing the minimum number of guesses needed to (always) win Wordle as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMirror: http://www.alexpeattie.com/nyan-3d/ (Couldn't find one elsewhere, so uploaded files from this repo: https://github.com/canuckistani/Nyan-3D-Firefox-fix )
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on “WebGL Nyan cat”Submitted Establishing the minimum number of guesses needed to (always) win Wordle (2022) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt's a joke. It's a joke basically saying "First, there was B, and it looked like this. Then, there was C, and it looked like this. Finally, there was Go, a new evolution of our work". The git dates were clearly faked and created entirely for the purpose of this joke. If you wanna know how to edit dates, this blog does a slightly better job than the `git-commit` man page: https://alexpeattie.com/blog/working-with-da…
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on “Go's first commit”Submitted Working with Dates in Git (2011) as a story · 1 points
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