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Brit Butler

Personal blog · redlinernotes.com/blog · on HN as redline6561programmingsystems

Brit Butler's personal blog at redlinernotes.com covers programming and systems. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “A 6502 emulator in Common Lisp [pdf]”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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7mentions?
6HN people?
2008–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link Brit Butler's cl-6502 material, a GitHub README and a PDF book, as pointers for low-level programming in Common Lisp, such as emulating the 6502 chip.

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.

The author on HN?

redline6561 · 48 karma · member since 2008

http://redlinernotes.com/

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. A 6502 emulator in Common Lisp [pdf]
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-06
  2. A Common Lisp Web Development Primer, Part 1
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-09-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. PuercoPop · 2017-08-07
    For more low-level Lisp see https://github.com/kingcons/cl-6502/blob/master/README.md And the corresponding book http://redlinernotes.com/docs/cl-6502.pdf

    Comment linking /docs/cl-6502.pdf

    on “CHIP-8 in Common Lisp”
  2. lispm · 2013-07-06

    Submitted A 6502 emulator in Common Lisp [pdf] as a story · 139 points

    HN discussion
  3. redline6561 · 2010-10-11
    Well, the two prominent web frameworks are Weblocks and UCW but their documentation is...wanting. I'm working on a Weblocks tutorial right now but I gave a bit of a survey of the CL web landscape recently: http://redlinernotes.com/blog/?p=1232 Damn shameless self promoters. Anyway, seeing as UCW and Weblocks aren't well documented a lot of people just grab Postmodern or CL-SQL for DB stuff (there are some NoSQL solu…

    Comment linking /blog/?p=1232

    on “Quicklisp public beta”
  4. fogus · 2010-11-12

    Submitted The Spirit of Lisp as a story · 38 points

    HN discussion
  5. mqt · 2008-04-03

    Submitted Language Adoption and Lisps as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  6. fogus · 2010-09-21

    Submitted A Common Lisp Web Development Primer, Part 1 as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  7. juliangamble · 2012-08-14

    Submitted On Programmer Archaeology as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion

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