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Jim Lawless
Personal blog · lawlessguy.wordpress.comprogrammingsystems
Jim Lawless's personal blog at lawlessguy.wordpress.com covers programming and systems. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on programming and retro computing, including a small Forth-like RPN interpreter written in Go and the author's history with MailSend, a command-line SMTP mailer. The comments cite the posts without judging them.
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.
What Hacker News says?
Stuff I've written independently: MailSend ... a command-line SMTP mailer I sold starting in 1997 (with the same name as some other command-line mailers ) is still in use by some of my oldest customers. It doesn't directly support SSL/TLS, but a handful are still able to use it. I made the AWK ( compiled AWK ) source available a few years ago: http://www.mailsend-online.com/blog/mailsend-is-free.html My lightweight…
Comment linking /2015/06/27/update-to-a-command-line-mp3-player-for-windows/
on “Ask HN: Oldest code you have written that is still in use?”Submitted Tech Pranks from the MS-DOS 16-Bit Era as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI agree with your approach! I built a non-Turing-complete Forth-like interpreter in Go a few years ago with words similar to the set you've defined above: https://lawlessguy.wordpress.com/2013/07/20/an-rpn-interpret...
Comment linking /2013/07/20/an-rpn-interpreter-in-go-golang/
on “Why I wrote a book about interpreters”Submitted Variant Types in Golang as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAwesome. Just did some idle digging out of curiosity, and stumbled on something that may be of interest: http://iancoog.altervista.org/HF/develop64_hf.rar It was hiding in here: http://comp.sys.cbm.narkive.com/YJAWnSun/develop-64 There are references to a "develop64_cracked" on a retro FTP server that's 404ing for that file; this RAR seems to contain the file was was on the FTP server. Also, backspacing the file off…
Comment linking /2016/12/04/an-interview-with-the-author-of-the-french-silk-assembler/
on “Apple 1 ROM disassembly”