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Dayvi Schuster
Personal blog · dayvster.com/blogprogrammingsystems
Dayvi Schuster writes Dayvster, a personal blog at dayvster.com about programming and systems. Since 2025, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “Is Odin just a more boring C?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.
I write about Zig, systems programming and performance, and build small fast open source tools in Zig and Qt, including zenkai, an app launcher.
Most-linked posts?
- Is Odin just a more boring C?4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-10-06
- Accidentally Made a Zig Dotenv Parser2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-08
- A shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-18
- My Problem with Omarchy Is What I Like About Arch2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-12
What Hacker News says?
Submitted A shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity as a story · 278 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zig feels more practical than Rust for real-world CLI tools as a story · 206 points
HN discussionSubmitted In Defense of C++ as a story · 185 points
HN discussionSubmitted The allure of new languages vs. the necessity of problem-solving as a story · 83 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Odin just a more boring C? as a story · 57 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zig + Qt feels like doing the impossible right as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted Accidentally Made a Zig Dotenv Parser as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Accidentally Made a Zig Dotenv Parser as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Odin Just a More Boring C? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Miss When Software Ended as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Worse Is Better Start Simple and Iterate as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coreutils-Rs Are We Chasing Language Hype over Solving Real Problems? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dev Culture Is Dying the Curious Developer Is Gone as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thing About Side Projects Is Being Allowed to Care Too Much as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Put a Browser in Everything and Called It Progress as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Are Not All Terrible Developers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted In Defense of Manual Memory Management as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI's Trap: Settling for Boilerplate over Elegant Code as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Odin Just a More Boring C? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Problem with Omarchy Is What I Like About Arch as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zenkai: A Zig App Launcher That Starts in 20ms Sometimes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Bun Leaving Zig Is Great for Zig as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Odin Just a More Boring C? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Battle Tested React Hooks Are Now Open Source as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zig Allocators Explained (2024) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Problem with Omarchy Is What I Like About Arch as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Most Code Should Be Boring as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Manual Memory Management as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The TypeScript Development Trap You Need to Avoid as a story · 1 points
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