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John's Codes

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John's Codes is a personal blog at johns.codes about programming and systems. Since 2022, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Making a Chess Engine in Zig”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-05, and you can follow it by feed.

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21mentions?
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2022–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2023

My ramblings on programming

Most-linked posts?

  1. Making a Chess Engine in Zig
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-08-18
  2. Advent of Code 2024 in Nix – Day 01-03
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-05
  3. Making a Type Checker/LSP for Nix
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-03
  4. Efficient Nix Derivations with File Sets
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-02
  5. Nix and Home Manager on the steam frame
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-05
  6. Rust Environment and Docker Build with Nix Flakes
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-19

What Hacker News says?

  1. jrmurray · 2022-08-02

    Submitted Making a PR to Nixpkgs as a story · 43 points

    HN discussion
  2. todsacerdoti · 2024-08-18

    Submitted Making a Chess Engine in Zig as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  3. lukastyrychtr · 2022-05-27

    Submitted Rust Environment and Docker Build with Nix Flakes as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. jrmurray · 2026-10-05

    Submitted Nix and Home Manager on the steam frame as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. tosh · 2026-04-28

    Submitted Making a Chess Engine in Zig (2024) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. azhenley · 2024-12-07

    Submitted Advent of Code 2024 in Nix – Day 01-03 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. todsacerdoti · 2024-12-05

    Submitted Advent of Code 2024 in Nix – Day 01-03 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. drakerossman · 2024-08-19

    Submitted Making a Chess Engine in Zig as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. todsacerdoti · 2023-12-02

    Submitted Efficient Nix Derivations with File Sets as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. todsacerdoti · 2023-05-01

    Submitted Exposing a Rust Library to Node with Napi-Rs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. jrmurray · 2023-01-23

    Submitted Building a Simple DB in Rust – Part 2 – Basic Execution as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. jrmurray · 2022-09-07

    Submitted Building TypeScript Node Apps with Nix as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. ibobev · 2026-10-05

    Submitted Nix on the Steam Frame as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. birdculture · 2026-04-04

    Submitted Making a Type Checker/LSP for Nix as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. jrmurray · 2026-04-03

    Submitted Making a Type Checker/LSP for Nix as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. siraben · 2023-12-03

    Submitted Efficient Nix Derivations with File Sets as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. jrmurray · 2023-10-09

    Submitted Organizing System Configs with NixOS as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. jrmurray · 2023-05-09

    Submitted Type Safe GroupBy in TypeScript as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. jrmurray · 2023-01-02

    Submitted Building a Simple DB in Rust – Part 1 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. jrmurray · 2022-05-19

    Submitted Rust Environment and Docker Build with Nix Flakes as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. jrmurray · 2022-01-27

    Submitted Intermediate TypeScript: Literals and Unions as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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