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Artem Chistyakov
Personal blog · temochka.com/blogprogrammingsystems
Artem Chistyakov's personal blog at temochka.com covers programming and systems. Since 2017, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “The language of programming”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-03, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this post by Artem Chistyakov on whether programming depends on knowing English and on how naming shapes programming. Commenters call it a sharp take and a fascinating read.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My name is Artem. I’m passionate about computers, arts, and writing. I’m both a career software engineer and a hobby computerist.
Most-linked posts?
- The language of programming5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-06-28
What Hacker News says?
It's not a matter of alphabet because people still learn programming languages from English books. Pretty much nails it: https://temochka.com/blog/posts/2017/06/28/the-language-of-p...
Comment linking /blog/posts/2017/06/28/the-language-of-programming.html
on “Show HN: Bato – A Filipino Programming Language”Submitted The language of programming as a story · 164 points
HN discussionAn interesting point about programming is that so much of it comes down to thinking of names. I found this article by a Russian native about programming and naming things rather fascinating: https://temochka.com/blog/posts/2017/06/28/the-language-of-p...
Comment linking /blog/posts/2017/06/28/the-language-of-programming.html
on “Ask HN: Is knowing English a prerequisite for being a software engineer?”Submitted The Language of Programming: Learning to Code as a Non-English Speaker as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Try8085: Looking back at an 8-year-old project as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The language of programming as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Elm to generate The Witness-esque maze panels as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What do you mean, “software sucks”? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Haskell at Work: Writing a Specialized CLI Client for the Postmark API as a story · 1 points
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