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blog.qqrs.us
Personal blog · blog.qqrs.us/bloghardwareprogramming
blog.qqrs.us is a personal blog at blog.qqrs.us about hardware and programming. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Vim on a Mechanical Typewriter”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link blog.qqrs.us posts on Python's GIL and subinterpreters in Python 3.8, and on a typewriter that sends keystrokes to a Google Doc. One commenter also links a post on running vim on a mechanical typewriter.
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.
What is it? Doorbot is an Internet-connected door unlocker that I built for a community space. It allows people to enter the space without needing …
Most-linked posts?
- Vim on a Mechanical Typewriter2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-09-20
What Hacker News says?
> This, in turn, means that Python developers can utilize async code, multi-threaded code and never have to worry about acquiring locks on any variables or having processes crash from deadlocks. Dangerous advice. Whether this is true or not depends on lots of things such as how many and which operations you're doing on those variables. Sure, CPython might do lots of simple operations atomically, but this is not enou…
Comment linking /blog/2016/05/01/which-python-operations-are-atomic/
on “Has the Python GIL Been Slain? Subinterpreters in Python 3.8”Submitted Which Python operations are atomic? (2016) as a story · 25 points
HN discussionI remember someone also rigged up a mechanical typewriter to run vim http://blog.qqrs.us/blog/2013/05/03/vim-on-a-mechanical-type...
Comment linking /blog/2013/05/03/vim-on-a-mechanical-typewriter/
on “A typewriter that sends its keystrokes in real time to a Google Doc”Submitted Proofing Spirits with a Homemade Electrobalance as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vim on a Mechanical Typewriter as a story · 1 points
HN discussion