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Lesley Lai
Personal blog · lesleylai.info/enprogramming
Lesley Lai's personal blog at lesleylai.info covers programming. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “A Love Letter to Flashcards”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post covers building compilers incrementally and extensibly. The one comment discusses gaps in compiler-teaching material and does not judge the post itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Personal website of Lesley Lai, featuring a blog, public notes, and a portfolio of personal projects
Most-linked posts?
- A Love Letter to Flashcards2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-05
What Hacker News says?
I just got over writing 2 (well 2.5) toy compilers and I think a lot of the material in the compiler-teaching space lack some subtle developmental aspects. I wish there was a course designed somewhere which talked about more ingrained issues: how to structure/design the AST[0], buffer based vs noncontextual tokenization/parser design, index handling and error sync in the parser, supporting multiple codegen architect…
Comment linking /en/ast-in-cpp-part-1-variant/
on “Compilers: Incrementally and Extensibly (2024)”Submitted Fifty Shades of OOP as a story · 143 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Love Letter to Flashcards as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Little C++ Standard Library Utility: std:align as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The surprising codegen impact of noexcept as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Love Letter to Flashcards as a story · 1 points
HN discussion