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Carl Riis

Personal blog · carltheperson.com/posts · on HN as carlthepersonprogrammingcareer

Carl Riis's personal blog at carltheperson.com covers programming and career. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Getting better at Linux with mini-projects”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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15mentions?
5HN people?
2021–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Carl Riis's blog for programming and personal posts, such as a guide to building a shell in Go, a TypeScript types cheat sheet, and a post about building a house.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

The author on HN?

carltheperson · 1,040 karma · member since 2021

I'm Carl, a software engineer and human person. https://carltheperson.com https://github.com/carltheperson https://www.linkedin.com/in/carltheperson

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

Most-linked posts?

  1. Getting better at Linux with mini-projects
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-02
  2. Making a magical TypeScript cheat sheet
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-19

What Hacker News says?

  1. I know its not C but this guy did it in Go among other small projects: https://carltheperson.com/posts/10-things-linux

    Comment linking /posts/10-things-linux

    on “Write a Shell in C”
  2. Submitted Getting better at Linux with mini-projects as a story · 1009 points

    HN discussion
  3. The naming of TypeScript Union and Intersection types, with respects to type theory, used to be terribly confusing/contradictory: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/unions-and-inte... See last paragram under «Unions with common fields» Leading to terribly confusing TypeScript cheat sheets such as this (see the union and intersection venn-diagrams): https://carltheperson.com/images/magic-typescript/magic-ty…

    Comment linking /images/magic-typescript/magic-typescript.png

    on “TypeScript and Set Theory”
  4. Submitted My House as a story · 633 points

    HN discussion
  5. micvbang · 2021-11-06Recommends
    Keep up the awesome work, Carl! I absolutely also loved your house building post. For people that didn't read it yet: https://carltheperson.com/posts/my-house/ Your world view is awesome and I especially admire it from a person your age.

    Comment linking /posts/my-house/

    on “Making a game to memorize facts about every country”
  6. Submitted Making a game to memorize facts about every country as a story · 91 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Creating My Own Linux-Based Smart TV as a story · 63 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Why I Dropped Out of High School as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Making a magical TypeScript cheat sheet as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Thoughts on How I Would Run a Startup as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted A Story of Working Efficiently as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Reasons to Discourage You from Trying as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Making a magical TypeScript cheat sheet as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Same App Different Design Patterns as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted On Courage as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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