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👻 mediocregopher is a personal blog at blog.mediocregopher.com about programming, culture and security. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Component-Oriented Programming”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts about procedural terrain generation, such as a Clojure implementation of the diamond-square algorithm. The one comment only points to that post as a read-later bookmark.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Component-Oriented Programming2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-30
- A Simple Rule for Better Errors2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-20
- Random Terrain Generation – A Clojure Walkthrough2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-12
What Hacker News says?
- zhemao · 2014-05-12
There was a Clojure example of this algorithm posted a few months back. Funnily enough, it's been in my "read later" bookmarks for a while now and I just got around to reading it this morning before I saw this post. http://blog.mediocregopher.com/clojure-diamond-square.html
Comment linking /clojure-diamond-square.html
on “Realistic terrain in 130 lines of JavaScript” Submitted Namecoin, A Replacement For SSL as a story · 159 points
HN discussionSubmitted The case for open infrastructure as a story · 76 points
HN discussionSubmitted Self-Hosting a Blog Mailing List as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Random Terrain Generation – A Clojure Walkthrough as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mastodon's Biggest Problem Is Its Name as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted NFTs: Some Thoughts About as a story · 2 points
HN discussion- tate · 2021-03-25
Submitted A Simple Rule for Better Errors as a story · 2 points
HN discussion Submitted A Simple Rule for Better Errors as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Program Structure and Composability as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Do We Have WiFi Passwords? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Component-Oriented Programming: A concise description of as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Component-Oriented Programming as a story · 1 points
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