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Jordan Matelsky
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Jordan Matelsky's personal blog at blog.jordan.matelsky.com covers programming and science. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-18, and you can follow it by feed.
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You write the file and ALL steps are run in topological order so that a job never runs until its dependencies have run. i.e., in a tool I'll have `build.frof` as a separate frof file than `download-dependencies.frof`, perhaps. (If your preference is that those belong in the same file I'd be down to have PRs that support that! Should be very easy, I'm happy to try implementing this if there's interest.) So for a file…
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on “Just: Just a Command Runner”Submitted Turtle visual cortex is non-retinotopic as a story · 128 points
HN discussionThis is neat — I do think this is relevant to more than just the software engineering space. See also, healthcare and law (I wrote more at length here, not to derail this comment thread [1]). Our junior training on-ramps for a lot of knowledge-work fields are in some semblance of equilibrium, but it's an unstable one. [1] https://blog.jordan.matelsky.com/AI-doctors-bum-me-out/
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on “The Junior Hiring Crisis”Submitted Making Holograms with a Pen Plotter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI also had absolutely no idea what was going on, so I tried to emulate the physical generation of Wada basins. Post here: http://blog.jordan.matelsky.com/wada/
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on “Lakes of Wada”Submitted Deploying a serverless webpage using AWS, which apparently is hard, somehow as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Based base64 (now with more steganography) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fibonacci Network: Generate Fibonacci and Tribonacci Numbers with Graphs as a story · 1 points
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