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Joe Crawford
Personal blog · artlung.com/blogprogrammingculture
Joe Crawford writes ArtLung, a personal blog at artlung.com about programming and culture. Since 2009, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “The Invention of C++”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Joe Crawford's site hosts a satirical fake interview with Bjarne Stroustrup about C++'s invention, plus Neal Stephenson essay and Cryptonomicon pages. Commenters share them as amusing reads, mostly the Stroustrup piece.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
ArtLung.com is the personal website of Joe Crawford, creative web developer and artist
Most-linked posts?
- The Invention of C++7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2009-07-09
- In the Beginning Was the Command Line7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2009-05-15
What Hacker News says?
Feel like I have to share this hilarious fake interview with Stroustroup (creator of C++) here http://artlung.com/smorgasborg/Invention_of_Cplusplus.shtml
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on “Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads”Submitted The Invention of C++ as a story · 60 points
HN discussionOh really? I heard from a writer that emacs is the best word processor. http://artlung.com/smorgasborg/C_R_Y_P_T_O_N_O_M_I_C_O_N.sht...
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on “Welcome to the new decade”Submitted In the Beginning Was the Command Line as a story · 5 points
HN discussionWell, Bjarne Stroustrup has a rant on C++! But it’s not actually pro C++. (It’s also fictional, but a very amusing read.) http://artlung.com/smorgasborg/Invention_of_Cplusplus.shtml
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on “Zed Shaw on C++”Submitted In The Beginning Was The Command Line by Neal Stephenson (1999) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionA nice essay on this topic by Neal Stephenson. In the Beginning was the Command Line http://artlung.com/smorgasborg/C_R_Y_P_T_O_N_O_M_I_C_O_N.sht...
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on “Life on the Command Line”Submitted The Invention of C++ – Nice bit of net lore as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis (admittedly fake) interview with Bjarne always makes me smile: http://artlung.com/smorgasborg/Invention%5Fof%5FCplusplus.sh...
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on “If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy”Submitted Hoax Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe most bizarre bit of gamification I've run across lately was in Wells Fargo's ATMs. I deposited a check the other day and got an alert on the ATM screen: You've earned a new badge Express Depositor [Learn More] Well! That should certainly help me gain status and reputation among my fellow ATM users! Photo here: http://artlung.com/blog/2012/05/03/gamification-in-the-wild-...
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on “Gamification is not entirely bullshit”Submitted In the Beginning was the Command Line as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIn related news, C++ was invented to increase programmers' salaries: http://artlung.com/smorgasborg/Invention_of_Cplusplus.shtml
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on “Creators Admit Unix, C Hoax”Submitted Life HAPPENS (a talk on open source maintaining) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThanks for referencing that, I'd never actually heard of it: http://artlung.com/smorgasborg/C_R_Y_P_T_O_N_O_M_I_C_O_N.sht...
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on “Differences in the Windows and Unix cultures”Submitted The Web is Better, Part 2 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI don't know anyone who would ever write a manuscript as collection of text files. I know of two professional writers who use Emacs. Neal Stephenson: If you are a professional writer--i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted and printed--emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. http://artlung.com/smorgasborg…
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on “Version Control for Writers”I liked the analogy, but I think Neal Stephenson did the definitive one... Search in page for "MGBs, TANKS, AND BATMOBILES" at http://artlung.com/smorgasborg/C_R_Y_P_T_O_N_O_M_I_C_O_N.sht...
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on “User-Friendliness on Windows and Linux”I think this story sits one below "The Invention of C++" [1] on /r/forwardsfromgrandma [1] http://artlung.com/smorgasborg/Invention_of_Cplusplus.shtml
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on “Linus Torvalds goes off on Linux and Git”
