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Mark VandeWettering
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Mark VandeWettering writes Brainwagon, a personal blog at brainwagon.org about hardware, science and programming. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only linked item is a 2009 post on coroutines as an alternative to state machines, discussed alongside PuTTY's coroutine trick and Tom Duff's related work. The comment does not discuss the writing.
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.
Mark VandeWettering's notebook: telescope making, optics, radio, woodworking, and whatever is on the bench this week.
What Hacker News says?
Good laughs chasing links: - Simon Chatham: "PuTTY is a Win32 Telnet and SSH client. The SSH protocol code contains real-life use of this coroutine trick. As far as I know, this is the worst piece of C hackery ever seen in serious production code." http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html - Tom Duff: "Yeah. I knew this. In my piece about The Device, I mention something about a similar trick for in…
Comment linking /2005/03/05/coroutines-in-c/
on “Co-routines as an alternative to state machines (2009)”Submitted The J1 Forth CPU, running on an FPGA as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simulated rainbow and how light propagates through a drop of water (2010) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Enigma 2600 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Little Engine that Could as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting a PDP-10 up and running as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hellduino: Sending Hellschreiber from an Arduino as a story · 1 points
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