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Daniel Long Sockwell
Personal blog · codesections.com/blog · on HN as codesectionsprogrammingwriting
Daniel Long Sockwell writes CodeSections, a personal blog at codesections.com about programming and writing. Since 2018, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “A Raku Manifesto (Part 1) – Daniel Sockwell”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Daniel Long Sockwell's posts on Raku's Lisp-like features and on designing social media and free software languages. Comments mainly cite these posts as sources.
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.
The personal website and blog of Daniel Long Sockwell, a lawyer-turned-programmer with an interest in web development, open source, and making things as simple as possible.
Most-linked posts?
- A Raku Manifesto (Part 1) – Daniel Sockwell3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-09-27
- Raku's surprisingly good Lisp impression2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-09-23
- Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-08-06
- How to Send Keybase Chats Using Vim2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-08-24
- Using Vim to take time-stamped notes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-02-14
- If you want to label your code, consider Label-ing your code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-21
What Hacker News says?
Cool project. Last time I looked, the image selection was a bit lacking—in fact, I blogged about choosing between Lorem Picsum and several alternatives a couple months ago: https://www.codesections.com/blog/guide-to-placeholder-image... I eventually settled on Pixabay, but if Lorem Picsum has added more images recently, I might need to give it another look.
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on “Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos”Submitted Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch as a story · 467 points
HN discussionI'd like to see what happens if psychologists design a social media platform around encouraging positive healthy interactions. I can think of many improvements: * Boosting instead of retweeting can avoid viral outrage, explanation - https://www.codesections.com/blog/mastodon-elevator-pitch/ * Reduce the incentives & rewards for signalling and curating an online identity, e.g. avoid Like buttons and Share'd content.…
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on “Teens who refuse to use social media”Submitted Comparing Rust and JavaScript Ergonomics with a Simple Linked List as a story · 59 points
HN discussion(one) nice thing about Raku is it does a surprisingly good lisp impression out of the box… https://www.codesections.com/blog/raku-lisp-impression/ [thanks to Larry Wall’s penchant for collecting stuff]
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on “Hy 1.0 – Lisp dialect for Python”Submitted Raku's surprisingly good Lisp impression as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI wrote a companion piece that explains what makes Mastodon better than Twitter. It starts like this: > Mastodon is a newcomer social media platform that is a lot like Twitter—short messages, followers, hashtags, all that. But Mastodon is much better than Twitter, and not just because being totally ad-free and keeping chronological timelines make it far more enjoyable to use (though that certainly helps!). All that…
Comment linking /blog/mastodon-elevator-pitch/
on “How Does Mastodon Work?”Submitted A Raku Manifesto (Part 1) – Daniel Sockwell as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI think this is the wrong way to go about site minimalism. My personal site[0] is pretty minimalist--the home page has one request for 3.3 KB. But it doesn't sacrifice in the same ways this site does: it keeps readable source code, it still uses BEM classes for maintainability, and it has a working menu on the same page (rather than requiring visitors to load a seperate menu page). So, with less than half the kiloby…
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on “Delivering WordPress in 7kb”Submitted A Raku Manifesto as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> I've heard Perl described as a sort of linguist / grammatical type of language, where you can solve the same problem using multiple approaches and syntax. Is this something Raku is drifting from or embracing? Very much embracing – "turning up to 11" might be a better way to put it. I recently wrote a three-part blog series[0] about what Raku's primary values, and the more-than-one-way-to-do-it idea features promin…
Comment linking /blog/raku-manifesto/
on “A Complete Course of the Raku programming language”Submitted Open Source Keyboardio Atreus Keyboard – Six Week Review as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI used Hugo for a while, but I feel it's really held back by its templating language. I've recently moved to Gutenberg[0], which is very nearly a clone of Hugo except for the templating language. After some benchmarks[1], I concluded that it's even faster than Hugo, and the ergonomics of using the templating language are far, far better. [0] https://www.getgutenberg.io/ [1] https://www.codesections.com/blog/gutenber…
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on “Let’s celebrate Hugo’s 5th birthday”Submitted A Raku Manifesto Part 3 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionRaku (www.raku.org) does a surprisingly good impression of Lisp: (sub (:&is-even = (sub (\n) {([or] ([==] 0, n), (is-odd (pred n:)))}), :&is-odd = (sub (\n) {([and] (not ([==] 0, n)), (is-even (pred n:)))})) {is-odd 11})() https://www.codesections.com/blog/raku-lisp-impression/
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on “If Lisp is so great”Submitted Thinking about moving the site away from Netlify (2019) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionor you could just use Raku and its “surprisingly good lisp impression”: https://www.codesections.com/blog/raku-lisp-impression/
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on “(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python))”Submitted Cleaning your GitHub profile with a simple Bash script as a story · 3 points
HN discussionProper talk description/abstract: https://codesections.com/presentations/fosdem-2021/ > Many programming languages have been explicitly designed to solve the problems of "programming in the large" – that is, to make it easier for large groups of software developers to work together, despite differences in skill, experience, or history with the project. Languages following this pattern are an excellent fit for the so…
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on “Imagining the Ideal Language for Writing Free Software”Submitted Using Vim to take time-stamped notes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted If you want to label your code, consider Label-ing your code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Raku Manifesto – Part 2 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sending Keybase Chats Using Vim as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Vim to take time-stamped notes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Send Keybase Chats Using Vim as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted If you want to label your code, consider Label-ing your code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Benchmarking and Comparing Static Site Generators: Gutenberg versus Hugo as a story · 1 points
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