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David Maynard
Personal blog · software-artist.comprogrammingdesign
David Maynard writes Software Artist, a personal blog at software-artist.com about programming and design. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this blog for its author's long career in computing, from early development environments and ARPANET-era work to current coding, and for reflections on how systems have grown more complex.
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.
Personal website running on Next.js
What Hacker News says?
When you have a resume like this https://www.software-artist.com/me/ you can make up any laws you want as far as I am concerned. He worked for Engelbart! Worked on ARPANet! Was sending email in 1975! And is still coding! What an inspiration. Very cool blog.
Comment linking /me/
on “The Joy of Coding: Observable”Submitted The Joy of Coding: Observable as a story · 202 points
HN discussionJust stop being an ass, life isn't about it. No matter how old are you, and what did you make, you can still have an urge to learn. On the other hand, there will always be those who will complain and kill joy... :) Here are few quotes from his blog posts I like: This lovely showcase current times. :) > The complexity of the systems involved has almost kept pace. In 1982 my entire development environment was 250 KB (…
Comment linking /darworms/
on “The Joy of Coding: Observable”Hi HN, Yet another silly audio visualizer. Why? I built this project for three reasons. First, I wanted to explore and keep up with the latest developments in software engineering, so I built this in collaboration with AntiGravity, Google's AI IDE. Secondly, I wanted to explore the current state of the "Web Platform" and understand the current capabilities of this evolving and ubiquitous platform. Lastly, I wanted t…
Comment linking /blog/rust-audio-visualizer
on “Show HN: A high-performance audio visualizer using Rust, WASM, and React”