Top all-time · #20612
Caleb Madrigal
Personal blog · calebmadrigal.com · on HN as calebmprogrammingsecurity
Caleb Madrigal's personal blog at calebmadrigal.com covers programming and security. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an Ask HN thread on favourite poets, but the comments are bare links and say nothing about the writing itself. The linked post is presumably about poetry.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- /passion-not-spent/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-31
What Hacker News says?
Looks like almost exactly the same experience I had: http://calebmadrigal.com/music-theory-notes/
Comment linking /music-theory-notes/
on “Music theory for nerds”Submitted Why I changed my mind about Node.js as a story · 86 points
HN discussionI have some similar notes here: https://calebmadrigal.com/music-theory-notes/ . It's all about the ratios.
Comment linking /music-theory-notes/
on “Basic Music Theory in ~200 Lines of Python”Submitted Hackers are the new lawyers as a story · 53 points
HN discussionHere are some of my notes on the Fourier Transform (and using it for sound analysis): http://calebmadrigal.com/fourier-transform-notes/
Comment linking /fourier-transform-notes/
on “Fourier transform – A math tool used in optics, MP3s, JPEGs and more (2013)”Submitted Tail recursion with asyncio as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMy quick notes on music theory: https://calebmadrigal.com/music-theory-notes/
Comment linking /music-theory-notes/
on “Music theory for nerds (2016)”Submitted Finding the Golden Ratio with Python as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttp://calebmadrigal.com/passion-not-spent/
Comment linking /passion-not-spent/
on “Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?”Submitted Fourier Transform Jupyter Notebook as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOp it seems. :-) http://calebmadrigal.com/passion-not-spent/
Comment linking /passion-not-spent/
on “Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?”Submitted Truthy graph – visualizing gradients of error as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAs a software engineer who occasionally writes poetry, I strongly agree with this. Going back and forth (between the "logical" and "creative" sides) feels healthy - kind of like switching between standing and sitting at a desk - once you've done one for a while, the other feels good. Here's one of my poems: What's my great fear? I'll tell you; come near. To lay down in death with so much left. Passion not spent - Oh…
Comment linking /topics/poetry/
on “Why poetry is good for the rational mind”Submitted Replay attack with HackRF as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI, too, migrated from Wordpress to Pelican ( http://calebmadrigal.com ). I love not having all of my content inside of MySQL tables. I also love writing in Markdown in vim instead of the Wordpress editor.
Comment linking /
on “Ditching Wordpress for Pelican”Submitted Viewing and modifying radio signals with Audacity as a story · 1 points
HN discussion