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Marin Atanasov Nikolov

Personal blog · dnaeon.github.ioprogrammingsystems

Marin Atanasov Nikolov's personal blog at dnaeon.github.io covers programming and systems. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-10, and you can follow it by feed.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2017–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

One HN commenter cites a post about choosing Lua as the DDL and config language after looking at HCL. The comment does not judge the writing itself, so HN's view of the blog is unclear.

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.

A place about Open Source Software, Operating Systems and some random thoughts

What Hacker News says?

  1. I actually just stumbled upon an article where someone went through HCL and finally landed at Lua: http://dnaeon.github.io/choosing-lua-as-the-ddl-and-config-l...

    Comment linking /choosing-lua-as-the-ddl-and-config-language/

    on “Zellij – A Terminal Workspace and Multiplexer”
  2. Submitted A simple traceroute(8) implementation in Python (2015) as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Starting with Common Lisp in 2020 as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion

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