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Jakob's Personal Webpage

Personal blog · jakob.space/blogprogramminggames

Jakob's Personal Webpage is a personal blog at jakob.space about programming and games. Since 2018, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Browser Games Aren't an Easy Target”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-27, and you can follow it by feed.

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11mentions?
10HN people?
2018–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for a summary of Fennel, a Lisp that runs on Lua. The one linking comment calls the linked post a nice summary of what Fennel is about.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Browser Games Aren't an Easy Target
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-01-11
  2. The Many Faces of an Undying Programming Language
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-20

What Hacker News says?

  1. mumblemumble · 2020-09-06Recommends
    A nice summary of what Fennel's about here: http://jakob.space/blog/thoughts-on-lisps.html#org4d7f824

    Comment linking /blog/thoughts-on-lisps.html

    on “Fennel – Lisp in Lua”
  2. todsacerdoti · 2022-08-26

    Submitted I Love My PinePhone as a story · 183 points

    HN discussion
  3. grugagag · 2020-07-21

    Submitted The Many Faces of an Undying Programming Language as a story · 143 points

    HN discussion
  4. jsnell · 2020-01-11

    Submitted Browser Games Aren't an Easy Target as a story · 106 points

    HN discussion
  5. dailymorn · 2018-06-09

    Submitted First Impressions of the Rust Programming Language as a story · 100 points

    HN discussion
  6. paroneayea · 2020-07-20

    Submitted The Many Faces of an Undying Programming Language as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. todsacerdoti · 2023-04-10

    Submitted What I've Learned About Formal Methods in Half a Year as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. latenightcoding · 2022-03-20

    Submitted The Many Faces of an Undying Programming Language (Thoughts on Lisps) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. dyslexit · 2020-01-12

    Submitted Browser Games Aren't an Easy Target as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. octosphere · 2018-11-02

    Submitted Slime the World: A Postmortem as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. markdog12 · 2020-01-12

    Submitted Browser games aren't an easy target as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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