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Artyom Bologov
Personal blog · aartaka.me · on HN as aartakaprogrammingwriting
Artyom Bologov's personal blog at aartaka.me covers programming and writing. Since 2023, 28 different Hacker News readers have linked it 59 times, most often “C Until It Is No Longer C”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Personal blog by Artyom Bologov. Commenters link its posts, including a select-text post offered in a plain .txt version and a post on generating the blog with the C preprocessor.
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.
A blog of Artyom Bologov, programmer-poet, privacy freak, and eco-activist. Programming, art, F/L/OSS, and other random stuff.
Most-linked posts?
- C Until It Is No Longer C3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-09-24
- LLMs, but Only Because Your Tech Sucks3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-03-23
- Advanced Self-Aware Ed(1)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-22
- Customizing Lisp REPLs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-18
- Lisp Design Patterns2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-25
- Common Lisp Is Not a Single Language, but Many2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-23
- CSS-Only Syntax Highlighting2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-15
- Just let me select text2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-24
- Against Markdown2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-24
- Easy (Horizontal Scrollbar) Fixes for Your Blog CSS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-06
What Hacker News says?
I did write on scrollbars too: https://aartaka.me/scrollbar.html
Comment linking /scrollbar.html
on “Just let me select text”Submitted Just let me select text as a story · 875 points
HN discussionOr by visiting a rendering which doesn't support CSS at all: eg https://aartaka.me/select-text.txt
Comment linking /select-text.txt
on “Just let me select text”Submitted All Lisp indentation schemes are ugly as a story · 117 points
HN discussionor switching to the txt version: https://aartaka.me/select-text.txt
Comment linking /select-text.txt
on “Just let me select text”Submitted Using Ed(1) as My Static Site Generator as a story · 95 points
HN discussionYou might like https://aartaka.me/oop-c
Comment linking /oop-c
on “Pretty.c”Submitted I Want My Scrollbar Back as a story · 95 points
HN discussionInteresting side note: the blog is generated with the C preprocessor https://aartaka.me/this-post-is-cpp
Comment linking /this-post-is-cpp
on “Common Lisp Is Not a Single Language, It Is Lots”Submitted My Ed(1) Toolbox as a story · 89 points
HN discussionhttps://aartaka.me/ with posts about Lisp, ed(1), and Web Platform
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Customizing Lisp REPLs as a story · 76 points
HN discussionOh, right, it's on the blog now: https://www.aartaka.me/blog/write-hypertext-not-plaintext
Comment linking /blog/write-hypertext-not-plaintext
on “Write Hypertext, Not Plaintext”Submitted Functional Threading "Macros" as a story · 67 points
HN discussionSubmitted Text UIs != Terminal UIs as a story · 58 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Sense of Lambda Calculus 0: Abstration, Reduction, Substitution? as a story · 54 points
HN discussionSubmitted S/Sed/Ed as a story · 51 points
HN discussionSubmitted Common Lisp Is Not a Single Language, but Many as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted Common Lisp Is Not a Single Language, It Is Lots as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted C Until It Is No Longer C as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Customizing Lisp REPLs as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLMs, but Only Because Your Tech Sucks as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted C Until It Is No Longer C as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lisp Design Patterns as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Against Markdown as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advanced Self-Aware Ed(1) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Just Let Me Select Text as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLMs, but Only Because Your Tech Sucks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lost Computation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using ed(1) as My Static Site Generator as a story · 3 points
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