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James Cash
Personal blog · occasionallycogent.comprogrammingwriting
James Cash's personal blog at occasionallycogent.com covers programming and writing. Since 2016, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Programming Isn’t Coding”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-10, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link James Cash's blog for its posts on Prolog and logic programming, such as one on eDCGs, which a commenter says is worth checking out.
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Most-linked posts?
- Programming Isn’t Coding2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-31
What Hacker News says?
> you have to check out eDCGs. https://github.com/kamahen/edcg , https://occasionallycogent.com/prolog_edcgs/index.html
Comment linking /prolog_edcgs/index.html
on “Annotated implementation of microKanren: an embeddable logic language”Submitted The problem with Free Software is capitalism as a story · 64 points
HN discussionYou're most welcome, and I'm glad you had a successful visa process. It's not easy. A few more data points on the need this fills: Basically as the attorney, I've been serving as the translator. My job is to take things like iPaaS, or TLS certificate management, or ring algorithms in distributed databases, and explain to the examiner what that means, in very simple stories. Like, this resets your password when your…
Comment linking /programming_isnt_coding/index.html
on “Show HN: A weekly newsletter that explain tech terms in plain, everyday language”Submitted Auto-Formatting Prolog Code as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git over Email? Convienence over Coolness as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Teaching Programming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Holding Stationæry as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming Isn’t Coding as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing an HTTP/2 Client in Prolog as a story · 1 points
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