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John Biesnecker
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John Biesnecker's personal blog at biesnecker.com covers programming and math. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Personal site of John Biesnecker — writing about technology, language, and travel.
What Hacker News says?
Submitted Understanding XOR: it's just a diff as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Mathalicious is wrong about Khan Academy and engineering education as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a card game with React.js as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I'm betting on JavaScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Visualizing a scikit-learn decision tree as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 3 ridiculous JavaScript n00b gotchas as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The joys of having a Forever Project as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Projects fail slowly, and then all at once as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Calculating the square root of a number with Heron's method as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simulating a full adder in code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Six simple steps to reading more as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop overthinking things and build something as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Diving into tries as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding reservoir sampling as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Hachiko: an asyncio wrapper for Watchdog as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simple, lightweight asyncio-based actors for Python 3.4 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The one where my company failed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Drawing dynamic SVGs with React.js as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Predicting the winner of an MLB game from historical data as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a reading time widget with React and jQuery as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Integrating React.js into Jekyll as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: MLB team colors in hexadecimal as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Boolean logic for programmers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The worries of parenting with technology as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Solving Pell's equations with the Chakravala method and Clojure as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On the importance of knowing the standard library as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Too complicated for mobile is just too complicated as a story · 1 points
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