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Chris McCormick
Personal blog · mccormick.cx/news · on HN as chr15mprogrammingai
Chris McCormick's personal blog at mccormick.cx covers programming and ai. Since 2010, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “Advantages of Generating Clojure with LLMs”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this blog for posts about the author's own projects, including the Slingcode web IDE, the Eucalypt ClojureScript UI library, and self-hosting and browser networking. One commenter calls a post worth reading.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Advantages of Generating Clojure with LLMs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-04
- JsGameSoup - a game library for Javascript2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-06-09
What Hacker News says?
Yep, home made. It's not online. I will publish it at some point, but it's a very simple web app you could put together pretty easily. Here's what it looks like: https://mccormick.cx/gfx/blogref/priority-dashboard.png The projects are stored in a YAML file with entries for name, source, and desired frequency. Then the script just ranks them by how overdue they are relative to the desired frequency. The source field…
Comment linking /gfx/blogref/priority-dashboard.png
on “Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?”Submitted YouTube cancelled my Nextcloud installation how-to as a story · 362 points
HN discussionI work in engineering using CAD everyday, and I have a toy project idea I am developing using LISA FEA software, FreeCAD's dll, Blender rendering, and C/Python(Hylang) code to make it all work. The idea is to input the maximum working envelope of your geometry, input a load and placement(s) and have the system evolve a workable and aesthetic design to meet the need. I had this idea a long time ago based on my study…
Comment linking /news/entries/live-coding-blender-with-hy
on “AngelCAD: Script-based 3D solid modeller”Submitted Show HN: ClojureScript pixel game engine with Blender live-reloading as a story · 285 points
HN discussionThe author also added this blog post explaining the reasoning behind it. Worth a read: https://mccormick.cx/news/entries/slingcode-personal-computi...
Comment linking /news/entries/slingcode-personal-computing-platform
on “Show HN: Slingcode live-reloading web IDE to make, run, and share web apps P2P”Submitted One million people saw my dumbest tweet as a story · 277 points
HN discussionThat's a good point. Myself is the easiest person to fool. I knocked together a quick analysis of my commit graphs going back several years, if you're interested: https://mccormick.cx/gh/ My average leading up to 2023 was around 2k commits per year. 2023 I started using ChatGPT and I hit my highest commits so far that year at 2,600. 2024 I moved to a different country, which broke my productivity. I started using ai…
Comment linking /gh/
on “Writing code is cheap now”Submitted Live-Coding Blender with Hy as a story · 116 points
HN discussionhttps://mccormick.cx - up since 30th Oct 2001!
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Moving Back to London and 2023 Review as a story · 56 points
HN discussionBlog post here: https://mccormick.cx/news/entries/i-replaced-react-reagent-w...
Comment linking /news/entries/i-replaced-react-reagent-with-720-lines-of-slop-coded-squint-cljs
on “Eucalypt: <10kb Reagent UIs with Squint ClojureScript [video]”Submitted My Microblog Has an RSS Mastodon Twitter Nostr and Bluesky Feed as a story · 29 points
HN discussionhttps://mccormick.cx/news My front page <mccormick.cx> has a list of the most read posts.
Comment linking /news
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Advantages of Generating Clojure with LLMs as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttps://mccormick.cx/news/entries/on-self-hosting-and-decent... Blog post.
Comment linking /news/entries/on-self-hosting-and-decentralized-software
on “Bugout: Browser-to-browser networking built on WebTorrent”Submitted Generating VST Plugins with ChatGPT as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generating VST Plugins with ChatGPT as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Make Hy-Lang More User-Friendly as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I won't read LLM authored fiction as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLM Epistemics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Replaced React and Reagent with 720 Lines of Slop-Coded Squint-Cljs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything I Hacked on in 2024 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CodeShow Presentation Tool as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advantages of Generating Clojure with LLMs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I beat Google at their own game as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I learned bootstrapping side projects in 2020 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Live-code 8-bit algorave music in the browser with ClojureScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PodSixNet - Lightweight Multiplayer Game Library in Python as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Embedded Spritesheet PNG Standard as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Platforms should publish search data as a story · 1 points
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