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Jordan Scales
Personal blog · thatjdanisso.coolprogrammingweb
Jordan Scales writes jordan scales, a personal blog at thatjdanisso.cool about programming and web. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Functions That Go Backwards”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
jdan's thoughts and things
Most-linked posts?
- Functions That Go Backwards3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-15
- Pascal's Triangle in J2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-02-12
What Hacker News says?
Shameless plug but I recently picked J back up as a hobby and it's been super fun. You can read some of my findings here: http://thatjdanisso.cool/j-fibonacci/ http://thatjdanisso.cool/j-pascal/ I encourage you to give this language a shot - it's got some really cool ideas.
Comment linking /j-pascal/
on “A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity (2012)”Submitted Falling in Love with Web Development Again as a story · 15 points
HN discussionI learned best in Scheme because you don't need to parse your input and can just evaluate a tree[0] (Parsing is, in my opinion, the most boring part about writing an interpreter!) Chapter 7 of Crafting Interpreters lays out how an evaluator works in a pretty clean way [1]. I've also blogged about evaluating ASTs in JavaScript [2] Lastly, Gary Bernhardt took it a step further and instead of "evaluating" code, "compil…
Comment linking /programming-languages
on “Ink programming language”Submitted Functions That Go Backwards as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPlease don't ever make buttons with <div>s! [0] Focusable should be the default, as many folks can't (or don't want to) use a mouse. Use the semantic <button> tag or even just an <a> with role="button" and you'll get accessibility for free. [0]: http://thatjdanisso.cool/a11y/clicking-with-a-keyboard/
Comment linking /a11y/clicking-with-a-keyboard/
on “Show HN: Markdown-UI – Write UI/UX with Markdown Syntax”Submitted Functions That Go Backwards as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is This True? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Functions That Go Backwards as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pascal's Triangle in J as a story · 1 points
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