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Personal blog · sidhe.org/~dan/blogprogrammingsystems

Generic Home Page is a personal blog at sidhe.org about programming and systems. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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18mentions?
4HN people?
2010–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 10 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's older posts on Parrot and Perl 6 development and the dynamics of the Perl project and its steering council. Comments cite them as background on past project eras and personality clashes.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. /~dan/blog/archives/000435.html
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. As a further clarification of my earlier remarks, when I was talking about Parrot developers not being interested in Perl 6 at all, I was not referring to your era, but to considerably earlier times: https://www.sidhe.org/oldblog/archives/000435.html Different eras with different dysfunctions, and different people involved, but for some reason, always personality clashes.

    Comment linking /oldblog/archives/000435.html

    on “I am stepping down from Perl Steering Council and Core”
  2. Submitted Registers vs. stacks for interpreter design (2003) as a story · 60 points

    HN discussion
  3. I'd like to mention Dan Sugalski who, before Audrey, was a similar whirlwind for the Parrot project. He too was sadly burnt out long before his time. I highly recommend perusing his well written blogs that wonderfully explain difficult programming topics. http://www.sidhe.org/~dan/blog/

    Comment linking /~dan/blog/

    on “The Perl 6 project 10 years old today”
  4. Submitted German Buttercream Is Awesome as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. > the 5 times divorcee insisting that the latest marriage is finally built to last Heh. And here was me thinking Camelia's 20 year old brother was still way too embarrassed to be seen out and about with his 14 year old sister because she was so immature ! But yeah, once bitten twice shy is an understated version of many folks' quite reasonably skeptical attitude toward P6. > The pattern so far has been "Component X…

    Comment linking /~dan/blog/archives/000435.html

    on “Space Invaders in Perl 6”
  6. Submitted 7 good tips on formatting an ebook for iBooks as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. > Presumably your view of P6-as-a-project is like your view of the language I'd say I've kept somewhat closer tabs on the project than on the language (partially to figure out whether it was actually time to start paying attention to the latter again). >> it's too soon to tell whether the "leave" phase will follow or not. > I was tempted to dismiss this as a "when did you stop beating your wife?" point It's more a c…

    Comment linking /~dan/blog/archives/000435.html

    on “Space Invaders in Perl 6”
  8. Submitted What the heck is: multimethod dispatch (MMD) good for? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. There is a lot of great wisdom trapped in Dan Sugalski's blog. I've tried to recommend his articles before but they've never gained any traction. http://www.sidhe.org/~dan/blog/ Of particular relevance here is his Parrot Retrospective: http://www.sidhe.org/~dan/blog/archives/000435.html Especially the last two items. One being the list in the wrap-up: good advice and the other being the one about Leo—the man who sin…

    Comment linking /~dan/blog/

    on a deleted thread
  10. Submitted What the heck is: Garbage Collection as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted What the heck is: Finalization as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted What the heck is: A tail call as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted What the heck is: A type as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted What the heck is: Multimethod dispatch (MMD) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted What the heck is: A string as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted What the heck is: Continuation Passing Style (CPS) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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