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Jeff Duntemann
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Jeff Duntemann's personal blog at contrapositivediary.com covers programming and writing. Since 2011, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “New Edition of FreePascal from Square One”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Jeff Duntemann's blog for updates on his assembly and FreePascal books, including new editions and free PDFs. One commenter says they enjoy reading the site.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- New Edition of FreePascal from Square One3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-05-08
- /?page_id=50702 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-01
What Hacker News says?
I found this book during my Google searches and really enjoy reading the author's website. Here's a comment [1] he made 3 years ago about a new version: "Well, that isn’t completely my decision. When the publisher wants a new edition, they contact me, and then I begin writing. I don’t see a new edition on the horizon for a couple of years yet. Worse, I need additional pages to cover 64 bit issues, and the number of…
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on “A fundamental introduction to x86 assembly programming”Submitted FreePascal from Square One [pdf] as a story · 4 points
HN discussionDefinately remember it fondly - and Jeff Duntemann who continues to update and publish his definitive works on learning assembly - the latest edition/revision is: "x64 Assembly Language Step by Step" - https://www.contrapositivediary.com/?page_id=5070
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on “Lazarus Release 4.0”Submitted New Edition of FreePascal from Square One as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAlternatively, Jeff Duntemann just released new edition of "FreePascal from Square One", free PDF: https://www.contrapositivediary.com/?p=5399
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on “Lazarus Release 4.0”Submitted Hypothesis: Reason vs. Anger as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI posted a link to the Foundation's Web site to Jeff's Facebook page. (He's been busy getting his house in Colorado Springs ready to sell, as he and his wife are moving to Phoenix for health reasons. Facebook is about all he has time to check these days.) I'll also link this HN comment thread to him. Jeff's blog is at http://www.contrapositivediary.com/ , and he updates that more frequently than his main Web site. (…
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on “FreePascal and Lazarus Foundation”Submitted Rant: Eat Food. Not Too Much. And Sometimes Plants. as a story · 2 points
HN discussionJeff Duntemann has uploaded a draft of his upcoming ebook, FreePascal from Square One , a revised version of his earlier books on Turbo Pascal and Borland Pascal: The book’s mission is to be what Assembly Language Step By Step is to assembly language: An absolute beginner’s tutorial on programming in Pascal. This includes people who have not yet learned what programming is and have never written a line of code in th…
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on “Code to joy: learning to code in middle age”Submitted New Release of FreePascal Book from Square One in PDF (2025) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSort of an obituary for the house: https://www.contrapositivediary.com/?p=652 Which apparently was completely remodeled in 1995. Sad, but not entirely unexpected.
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on “Robert and Virginia Heinlein's Colorado Springs House”Submitted New Edition of FreePascal from Square One as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYes, this was a great book - Jeff writes fiction these days, but has updated his "Assembly Language Step by Step" for Linux and has a nice FOSS book on FreePascal http://www.contrapositivediary.com/?page_id=1808
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on “Where Have You Gone, Peter Norton? (2014)”Submitted X64 Assembly Language Step by Step by Jeff Duntemann as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFor anyone interested in x64 assembly, it's worth noting that a new edition of Jeff Duntemann's excellent and classic introductory book on assembly, now fully updated for x64, is sitting with his publishers and is likely to be out sometime around the summer. Source: http://www.contrapositivediary.com/?m=20230222
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on “Learn x86-64 assembly by writing a GUI from scratch”By the way, the x86-64/AMD64 Linux edition of his assembly-language text just came out: https://www.contrapositivediary.com/?page_id=5070
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on “Turbo Pascal Turns 40”
