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Alexander Demin

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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.

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34mentions?
7HN people?
2011–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 22 in 2012

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?

  1. An Interview with Charles Wehterell (2012)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-08-26
  2. An interview with Charles Wetherell (author of “Etudes for Programmers”, 1978)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. 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”
  2. Submitted Collection of Intel 8080 microprocessors as a story · 60 points

    HN discussion
  3. I 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...

    Comment linking /blog/english/2012/08/25/interview-with-charles-wetherell/

    on “Pytudes: Python programs for perfecting particular programming skills”
  4. Submitted RetroBSD on Maximite as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  5. My 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/

    Comment linking /blog/english/2012/09/27/fcode/

    on “How I got banned from Codewars”
  6. Submitted GMC-4: 4-bit microcomputer as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  7. The 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”
  8. Submitted Intermittent Modified Fasting (IMF) Diet Calculator as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted My collection of Intel 8080 microprocessors as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted An Interview with Charles Wehterell (2012) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted The Verifone OMNI-395 payment terminal inside as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted The Colour Maximite microcomputer on PIC32 as a story · 2 points

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  13. Submitted Pi Bow - the most funny case for Raspberry Pi as a story · 2 points

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  14. Submitted Interview with Charles Wetherell, the author of "Etudes for programmers" book as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted New colour Maximite microcomputer or an interview with its creator as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted Raspberry Pi links as a story · 2 points

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  17. Submitted Interview with Anthony Williams, the author of "C++ Concurrency in Action" as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Mini computers: MK802, CuBox, Raspberry PI as a story · 2 points

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  19. Submitted Veracity - an alternative to git, Mercurial, Bazaar and fossil as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Hacking one-command CPU program challenge as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Visual Sokoban Solver in Zig/WASM as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted An interview with Charles Wetherell (author of “Etudes for Programmers”, 1978) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Snprintf() on different platforms as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Creating a live progress bar using Splunk as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted The Pocket Mini Computer on Parallax Propeller microcontroller as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted A vintage game "Karateka". Now with speedrun. as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted A vintage Apple's game "BOLO" as a story · 1 points

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  28. Submitted English hexadecimal "magic" words as a story · 1 points

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  29. Submitted USB Stick RAID as a story · 1 points

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  30. Submitted Resources about GMC-4 Microcomputer as a story · 1 points

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