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Arjun Sreedharan
Personal blog · arjunsreedharan.orgprogrammingsystems
Arjun Sreedharan writes Tumblr, a personal blog at arjunsreedharan.org about programming and systems. Since 2013, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times, most often “Kernel 101 – Let’s write a Kernel”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Arjun Sreedharan's beginner-level explainers, especially the Kernel 101 and Kernel 201 posts on writing a simple OS kernel, and his distributed systems 101 posts.
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.
Arjun Sreedharan is a Computer Science Engineer.
Most-linked posts?
- Kernel 101 – Let’s write a Kernel4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-04-14
- Write a simple memory allocator2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-08-09
- JPEG 101 – How does JPEG work?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-17
What Hacker News says?
One of the sweetest Distributed Systems blogs I have ever read: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com And yes, also my favorite 101 explainer blog: https://arjunsreedharan.org
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?”Submitted Kernel 101 – Let’s write a Kernel as a story · 435 points
HN discussionHis blog post goes into a lot more detail about things, and he has a part 2 where he adds keyboard input and screen output via interrupt handlers. It's useful as a "Hello World" level intro to the topic. Kernels 101 – Let's write a Kernel http://arjunsreedharan.org/post/82710718100/kernel-101-lets-... Kernels 201 - Let’s write a Kernel with keyboard and screen support https://arjunsreedharan.org/post/99370248137/ker…
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on “Learn to write your first OS kernel (2018)”Submitted How to find size of an array in C without sizeof as a story · 420 points
HN discussionFor beginners, you might want to check out the previous article (Kernel 101) first [0]. [0] http://arjunsreedharan.org/post/82710718100/kernel-101-lets-...
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on “Kernel 201 – Let’s write a kernel with keyboard and screen support (2014)”Submitted Let’s write a simple Kernel (2014) as a story · 350 points
HN discussionSubmitted Memory Allocators 101 – Write a simple memory allocator (2016) as a story · 271 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let’s write a Kernel with keyboard and screen support (2014) as a story · 139 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kernels 101 – Let’s write a Kernel (2014) as a story · 64 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kernel 201 – Let’s write a kernel with keyboard and screen support (2014) as a story · 64 points
HN discussionSubmitted Write a simple memory allocator as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Write your first kernel as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Character literal is not a character in C as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Find the size of an array in C without sizeof (2013) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Intro to kernels – write a kernel with keyboard and screen support as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted JPEG 101: How does JPEG work? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted JPEG 101 – How does JPEG work? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Write your first kernel in 60 lines of code as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Write your own minimal OS Kernel as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sneaking in data inside pointers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let’s write a Kernel with keyboard and screen support as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Neat and small hack to find Facebook friends ranking score using JavaScript as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Memory Allocators 101 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kernel 101 – Let’s write a Kernel as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Write a simple memory allocator as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A once backdoor in D-Link router and when someone tried to backdoor linux kernel as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hide data inside pointers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let’s write a Kernel with keyboard and screen support as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted File storage for your website using python and dropbox as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kernels 101 – Let’s write a Kernel as a story · 2 points
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