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Brian Steffens

Personal blog · briansteffens.github.io · on HN as briansteffensprogrammingsystems

Brian Steffens's personal blog at briansteffens.github.io covers programming and systems. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Making a virtual machine in Google Sheets”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
3HN people?
2017–2017first – last linked?

The author on HN?

briansteffens · 260 karma · member since 2016

https://briansteffens.github.io/

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Making a virtual machine in Google Sheets
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-07-03
  2. Split buffers: a variation on the gap buffer data structure
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-06-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. signa11 · 2017-07-05

    Submitted Making a virtual machine in Google Sheets as a story · 1074 points

    HN discussion
  2. briansteffens · 2017-02-20

    Submitted From math to machine: translating a function to machine code as a story · 108 points

    HN discussion
  3. briansteffens · 2017-07-03

    Submitted Making a virtual machine in Google Sheets as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  4. eatonphil · 2017-06-22

    Submitted Split buffers: a variation on the gap buffer data structure as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. briansteffens · 2017-06-21

    Submitted Split buffers: a variation on the gap buffer data structure for text editors as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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