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Monroe Clinton
Personal blog · monroeclinton.com · on HN as monroeclintonprogrammingsystems
Monroe Clinton's personal blog at monroeclinton.com covers programming and systems. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-22, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Monroe Clinton's blog for its posts on building window managers, including a tutorial on writing one in Python. The one comment points to that tutorial as a related resource.
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What Hacker News says?
Build your own window manager in Python: https://monroeclinton.com/build-your-own-window-manager/ By the way, it is much easier to develop and test these things using VNC, so running an X server in a separate window.
Comment linking /build-your-own-window-manager/
on “Rubywm: An X11 window manager in pure Ruby”Submitted I counted all of the yurts in Mongolia using machine learning as a story · 250 points
HN discussionhttps://monroeclinton.com I have a few posts about building a window manager, Linux, and JavaScript.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Graphing Ukrainian Territorial Control over Time as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Don't Buy SQLite in the Cloud as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How pointing devices work in Linux as a story · 1 points
HN discussion