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Max Kreminski
Personal blog · mkremins.github.io/bloggamesaidesign
Max Kreminski writes Affording Play, a personal blog at mkremins.github.io about games, ai and design. Since 2015, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Locked doors, headaches, and intellectual need”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Most-linked posts?
- Locked doors, headaches, and intellectual need4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-03-26
- Epitaph – Fermi Paradox Simulator4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-10-29
- Unix is not an acceptable Unix4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-06-07
- Unix Is Not an Acceptable Unix (2015)3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-09-19
- Locked doors, headaches, and intellectual need2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-31
- Blabrecs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-14
What Hacker News says?
This seems to address a lot of the shortcomings presented here: https://mkremins.github.io/blog/unix-not-acceptable-unix/
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on “Introducing nushell”Submitted Locked doors, headaches, and intellectual need as a story · 296 points
HN discussionI wish PowerShell and/or some of its ideas had a bit more mindshare outside of the MS ecosystem. Other folks have talked about this at length (e.g. https://mkremins.github.io/blog/unix-not-acceptable-unix/ ), but the fact that there is no standard way to pass anything other than strings of plain text between UNIX shell commands is incredibly limiting. Heck even if we could pass a flag (say, -j) to something like ls…
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on “Console.table()”Submitted Epitaph – Fermi Paradox Simulator as a story · 225 points
HN discussion> monads aren’t actually all that complicated. In fact, most of the experienced functional programmers I’ve met consider them downright simple. It’s just that newcomers often have a really hard time trying to figure out what exactly monads even are... A lot of intermediate-to-advanced functional programmers have taken it upon themselves to write monad tutorials... But for the most part, these tutorials never seem to…
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on “Haskell Concepts in One Sentence”Submitted Unix is not an acceptable Unix as a story · 162 points
HN discussionI'll take this one:) http://housejeffries.com/articles/unix-delenda-est I criticize Unix because I think it's getting in the way of the adoption of what I really love: the CLI. Really a much better article is this one, but I didn't write it: https://mkremins.github.io/blog/unix-not-acceptable-unix/
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on “Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous (Draft)”Submitted Unix Is Not an Acceptable Unix (2015) as a story · 123 points
HN discussionInteresting, sounds like another instance of problem solution ordering: http://mkremins.github.io/blog/doors-headaches-intellectual-... . >Think of yourself as someone who sells aspirin. And realize that the best customer for your aspirin is someone who is in pain. Not a lot of pain. Not a migraine. Just a little. >One of the worst things you can do is force people who don’t feel pain to take your aspirin. They may…
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on “Singapore employs a mathematics teaching method called productive failure”Submitted Blabrecs as a story · 66 points
HN discussionReally cool! I also made some blackout poetry tools back in like 2019, maybe of interest… https://mkremins.github.io/blackout/interactive
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on “Show HN: A tool for creating blackout poetry”Submitted Epitaph. A text game as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Epitaph: A game about the Fermi Paradox as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Games as storytelling partners as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Controls as Language as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blabrecs: Like Scrabble but Worse as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creativity Support Tools as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unix is not an acceptable Unix (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unix is not an acceptable Unix (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Epitaph as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Failure margins and feedback loops as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Locked doors, headaches, and intellectual need as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unix Is Not an Acceptable Unix (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Locked doors, headaches, and intellectual need as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Locked doors, headaches, and intellectual need as a story · 1 points
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