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Le Monde Tourne
Personal blog · kyleisom.net/blogprogrammingsecurity
Le Monde Tourne is a personal blog at kyleisom.net about programming and security. Since 2011, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “:syntax Off”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Kyle Isom's blog for posts on turning off syntax highlighting, plus Go, Lisp and security-kernel work. Commenters mostly cite the posts as references rather than praising the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Photography and long-form writing on my life, technology, photography, philosophy, books, and whatever else strikes my fancy.
Most-linked posts?
- :syntax Off4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-10-28
- [2012] :syntax off2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-01-27
What Hacker News says?
A few notes as I read through this: - Passwords are still just as broken now as they were then. - Functional programming is still widely discussed, though the focus is more on Lisp than Clojure/Haskell/etc. - Fourth post is the usual, somewhat sensationalist, this commonly-accepted thing is bad! sort of headline that makes the rounds here every so often. - This post on syntax highlighting [1] reminds me of another r…
Comment linking /blog/2012/10/17/syntax-off/
on “The front page of HN almost exactly 5 years ago”Submitted OpenSSH Keys: A Walkthrough as a story · 159 points
HN discussionhttp://kyleisom.net/blog/2012/10/17/syntax-off/ Syntax highlighting is less common in the Go community since Rob Pike called syntax highlighting juvenile :D https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/hJHCAaiL0so/kG3B... He also argued against keyword emphasizing: http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/pikestyle.html
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on “It is ridiculously easy to refactor Go”Submitted :syntax Off as a story · 88 points
HN discussionI know Kyle personally. He is super smart, incredibly humble, and willing to teach. And I always admire anyone taking the initiative to try and produce something useful. In response to Jabbles, this is from his (work in progress) book. Page 7. // Implement the standard padding scheme for block ciphers. This // scheme uses 0x80 as the first non-NULL padding byte, and 0x00 to // pad out the data to a multiple of the b…
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on “Practical Cryptography With Go”Submitted Secure channels over TCP/IP as a story · 45 points
HN discussionIndeed, there is a small movement in the development/programming community that advocate this :) https://dev.to/huytd/turning-off-the-syntax-highlighter-8af http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/syntaxhighlighting/ https://kyleisom.net/blog/2012/10/17/syntax-off/ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/hJHCAaiL0s... https://www.robertmelton.com/project/syntax-highlighting-off... https://news.ycombinator.…
Comment linking /blog/2012/10/17/syntax-off/
on “What the Grayscale Challenge Taught Us About Phone Addiction”Submitted Network Autoconfiguration with Go and ØMQ as a story · 37 points
HN discussionLISP side of things already has a bit of work toward a security model and components for robust implementation: Security Kernel https://www.kyleisom.net/downloads/security_kernel.pdf Formally-verified Scheme http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=881... The features could certainly be worth it. Some aspects of the Genera experience, esp productivity & holistic debugging, still aren't in modern flow…
Comment linking /downloads/security_kernel.pdf
on “Why do we need a new OS?”Submitted My docs got dropped in the Stratfor leak as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSubmitted Syntax Off (2012) as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nebula: a prototype of some ideas on file stores as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted :syntax off as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unix processes in illumos as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted On SOPA and PIPA as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cryptutils – common Go packages for doing encryption using NaCl and Ed25519 keys as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted [2012] :syntax off as a story · 1 points
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