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Alexander Demin
Personal blog · demin.ws/blog/englishprogramminggameshardware
Alexander Demin writes Программирование, a personal blog at demin.ws about programming, games and hardware. Since 2011, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “An Interview with Charles Wehterell (2012)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link posts on historical and niche programming: the Soviet Rapira language and its playground, interviews with Charles Moore about Forth, the fcode compiler, and a patent-related hardware diagram.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Блог Александра Дёмина о программировании, проектах и экспериментах.
Most-linked posts?
- An Interview with Charles Wehterell (2012)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-08-26
- An interview with Charles Wetherell (author of “Etudes for Programmers”, 1978)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-27
What Hacker News says?
If I give it some broad leeway, it sounds somewhat similar to the Parallax Propeller. This diagram, for example, has some resemblance to his claims: https://demin.ws/blog/english/2012/11/22/personal-mini-compu... Compare to his drawing: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/67/ad/43/be96187... But, personally, I don't understand why we're able to patent something just by making narrow definitions of specific "…
Comment linking /blog/english/2012/11/22/personal-mini-computer-on-parallax-propeller/propeller-block-large.jpg
on “SparkFun Hooks a Patent Troll”Submitted Collection of Intel 8080 microprocessors as a story · 60 points
HN discussionI think the projects are larger - or at least move from small ones like quines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing) ) to large ones writing simple compilers. Good (accurate) review at: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/12325/Etudes-for-Prog... and interviews with the author: https://demin.ws/blog/english/2012/08/25/interview-with-char... https://sudonull.com/post/27422-Breakfast-report-with-Charle...
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on “Pytudes: Python programs for perfecting particular programming skills”Submitted RetroBSD on Maximite as a story · 8 points
HN discussionMy understanding is fourth is still alive and well in the embedded world. A fourth compiler can be written in very few instructions, which is very important when you don't have a lot of memory to work with. http://demin.ws/blog/english/2012/09/27/fcode/
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on “How I got banned from Codewars”Submitted GMC-4: 4-bit microcomputer as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThe playground on [demin.ws/rapira]( https://demin.ws/rapira/ ) feels well made. This is a pretty cool historical artifact. Does anyone use "native language" programming languages in education or day to day?
Comment linking /rapira/
on “Rapira (Рапира) – Soviet programming language interpreter”Submitted Intermittent Modified Fasting (IMF) Diet Calculator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My collection of Intel 8080 microprocessors as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Interview with Charles Wehterell (2012) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Verifone OMNI-395 payment terminal inside as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Colour Maximite microcomputer on PIC32 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pi Bow - the most funny case for Raspberry Pi as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interview with Charles Wetherell, the author of "Etudes for programmers" book as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted New colour Maximite microcomputer or an interview with its creator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Raspberry Pi links as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interview with Anthony Williams, the author of "C++ Concurrency in Action" as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mini computers: MK802, CuBox, Raspberry PI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Veracity - an alternative to git, Mercurial, Bazaar and fossil as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking one-command CPU program challenge as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Visual Sokoban Solver in Zig/WASM as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An interview with Charles Wetherell (author of “Etudes for Programmers”, 1978) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Snprintf() on different platforms as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating a live progress bar using Splunk as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Pocket Mini Computer on Parallax Propeller microcontroller as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A vintage game "Karateka". Now with speedrun. as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A vintage Apple's game "BOLO" as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted English hexadecimal "magic" words as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted USB Stick RAID as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Resources about GMC-4 Microcomputer as a story · 1 points
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