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Carl Tashian
Personal blog · tashian.com · on HN as tashianprogramminghistory
Carl Tashian's personal blog at tashian.com covers programming and history. Since 2010, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “At Dynamicland, the Building Is the Computer”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on Dynamicland, Bret Victor's interactive computing project, including a rant on interaction design and Byte magazine coverage, and for a Google Translate experiment called multibabel.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Carl Tashian is a San Francisco-based software engineer and writer.
Most-linked posts?
- At Dynamicland, the Building Is the Computer4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-09-18
- Multi-User Dungeons Taught Me to Code (2016)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-03
What Hacker News says?
Sam Altman money turned off, but hanging on looking for funders, as of Sep. 18th article.[1] You can donate here.[2] Expected donation $5000 and up. [1] https://tashian.com/articles/dynamicland/ [2] https://dynamicland.org/donate/
Comment linking /articles/dynamicland/
on “A brief rant on the future of interaction design (2011)”Submitted At Dynamicland, the Building Is the Computer as a story · 132 points
HN discussionYou should try making your own. The Coke recipe is actually pretty simple -- most of the "super secret formula" stuff is for marketing. A quick Google will bring up a bunch of different versions, like the ones on this[1] helpful page. You can order the ingredients whenever you're sure you want to try it (most of them keep for a long time). Then, when you get a few hours free on the weekend, you can make a batch of s…
Comment linking /carl/archives/2009/03/ginger_ale.php
on “Two Months of Soylent”Submitted Death by a thousand great ideas as a story · 66 points
HN discussionByte cover for reference. https://tashian.com/articles/dynamicland/byte-magazine-augus...
Comment linking /articles/dynamicland/byte-magazine-august-1981.jpg
on “SmallJS: Smalltalk-80 that compiles to JavaScript”Submitted At Dynamicland, the Building Is the Computer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAlso http://tashian.com/multibabel/
Comment linking /multibabel/
on “Google Translate might not be as good as people thought”Submitted Multi-User Dungeons Taught Me to Code (2016) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBret Victor: “Maybe it takes a hundred years. It was a hundred years from the invention of the printing press to books being part of the general culture.” From a different article: https://tashian.com/articles/dynamicland/
Comment linking /articles/dynamicland/
on “Ethnographic research on Dynamicland”Submitted A Brief History of Random Numbers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI learned C by running a MUD — a DikuMUD derivative. I was in high school, in the 90s, and I didn't know any programmers in my town who could teach me how to really code. My high school computer science teacher didn't know. What I loved about the MUD as a learning environment was the players. On a busy night we'd have over a hundred people playing. So, I got to cut my teeth on a real, live production system with act…
Comment linking /articles/how-i-learned-to-program/
on “'I'm running a Mud so I can learn C programming ' (1993)”Submitted How I learned to program as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://tashian.com I write about various tech topics. Writing is thinking. It helps me learn.
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