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Avery Laird
Personal blog · averylaird.com/programmingprogrammingsystems
Avery Laird's personal blog at averylaird.com covers programming and systems. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Text Editor: Data Structures”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog as a source on piece tables, a data structure used in text editors. The linked post sits in a series about building a text editor.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A place for my research news.
Most-linked posts?
- Text Editor: Data Structures2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-10-01
What Hacker News says?
Piece tables used in text editors https://www.averylaird.com/programming/the%20text%20editor/2...
Comment linking /programming/the%20text%20editor/2017/09/30/the-piece-table/
on “Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?”Submitted Text Editor: Data Structures as a story · 664 points
HN discussionSubmitted Text Editor: Data Structures as a story · 268 points
HN discussionSubmitted Text Editor: Data Structures as a story · 1 points
HN discussion