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blog dot information dash superhighway dot net is a personal blog at blog.information-superhighway.net about programming and systems. Since 2020, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “What the hell is Forth? (2019)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- What the hell is Forth? (2019)5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-01-13
- Retrocomputing3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-12-13
- On the Need for Understanding3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-12-30
- Spellcaster – or, discovering and recovering a lost programming language (2021)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-01-14
- A Forth Vocabulary for Iteration2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-17
- Data Is Code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-15
What Hacker News says?
It is, actually! I didn’t realize that until I read the handwritten WASM s-expression source code of WAForth. Languages like Lisp or Forth that run on WASM — or even handwritten s-expression-style WASM code like in the WAForth kernel — can dynamically compile and assemble new WASM bytecode and data. They can then call back to the JavaScript host to create and link entirely new WASM modules on the fly, and immediatel…
Comment linking /what-the-hell-is-forth
on “Web Embeddable Common Lisp”Submitted Spellcaster – or, discovering and recovering a lost programming language (2021) as a story · 4 points
HN discussion"It is a language that makes complexity painful, but which reveals that a surprising amount can be accomplished without introducing any." - https://blog.information-superhighway.net/what-the-hell-is-f...
Comment linking /what-the-hell-is-forth
on “Show HN: NoteTech – Create personal automations by writing notes”Submitted What the hell is Forth? (2019) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI really enjoyed reading your Forth related blog posts, that's why I shared this one on HN. Thanks for writing them! I also liked these: - https://blog.information-superhighway.net/data-is-code - https://blog.information-superhighway.net/retrocomputing
Comment linking /retrocomputing
on “What the hell is Forth? (2019)”Submitted What the hell is Forth? (2019) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionstack shuffling is a code smell in Forth; cf https://blog.information-superhighway.net/forth-the-local-va... (I believe Moore has a small, fixed-size stack on his chips; go too deep and you start reusing stack slots. Somewhere I've seen code that rolled over a fixed stack on purpose but I can no longer recall if it was in a ColorForth or in an x86 math coprocessor)
Comment linking /forth-the-local-variable-question
on “A Forth Vocabulary for Iteration”Submitted On The Need For Understanding as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> At some point I came across some writing that suggested that Forth had a “loop control stack”. Wouldn't it be nice if I could implement some kind of loop control stack that worked for all kinds of iteration?...I added two loop control stacks – what I call the i-stack, and the next-stack. The i-stack contains the current value(s) being iterated over, and is read from with the i and j words like normal. So much of w…
Comment linking /spellcaster
on “A Forth Vocabulary for Iteration”Submitted The Need for Understanding (2025) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What the hell is Forth? – blog dot information dash superhighway dot net as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On the Need for Understanding as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Retrocomputing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Retrocomputing (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Is Code (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Forth vocabulary for iteration (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Is Code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Forth Vocabulary for Iteration as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spellcaster – Discovering a lost programming language (2021) as a story · 1 points
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