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Derrick W. Turk

Personal blog · usethe.computer · on HN as _dwtprogrammingdatasystems

Derrick W. Turk writes use the computer, a personal blog at usethe.computer about programming, data and systems. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Fun with Simulated Typestate in Python 3.8”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-07, and you can follow it by feed.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2020–2020first – last linked?

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_dwt · 433 karma · member since 2020

Consultant, programmer, recovering "real" engineer. I like sunsets, long walks on the beach, functional programming, type systems, interpreters and compilers, and many other things which don't pay the bills. blog: https://usethe.computer

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Fun with Simulated Typestate in Python 3.8
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-22

What Hacker News says?

  1. aazaa · 2020-10-22

    Submitted XMHell: Handling 38GB of UTF-16 XML with Rust as a story · 75 points

    HN discussion
  2. lukastyrychtr · 2020-07-23

    Submitted Fun with Simulated Typestate in Python 3.8 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. _dwt · 2020-07-22

    Submitted Fun with Simulated Typestate in Python 3.8 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. _dwt · 2020-06-19

    Submitted Typing “Group By”, Revisited as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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