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My ramblings
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My ramblings is a personal blog at arhamjain.com about programming and web. Since 2021, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Building a simple room-based chat application in Nim (using HTMX)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A personal blog of short programming posts on Nim, a room-based chat with HTMX, a literate-programming Wordle in Python, and a hyperscript typing test. Commenters link it as examples of small, practical projects.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
adventures with technology
Most-linked posts?
- Building a simple room-based chat application in Nim (using HTMX)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-17
- Using Nim for Web Development in 20212 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-01
- Show HN: A simple Wordle clone in 60 lines, using Hyperscript2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-26
What Hacker News says?
In case you want a quick example of a backend application in Nim, I've written a small post[1] describing how to create a room based chat using it and HTMX. In total, it's around 70 lines of code (though it doesn't cover more advanced use cases, like username collision). I too have moved from Go to Nim, the syntax and ease in which I can turn a feature into code has been much better. [1]: https://arhamjain.com/2021/…
Comment linking /2021/11/22/nim-simple-chat.html
on “Nim 1.6.2”Submitted Building a simple room-based chat application in Nim (using HTMX) as a story · 154 points
HN discussionAs an example of literate programming, this is very well done, and the presentation is very pretty. With that said, it is not the ideal way (for me) to explain code. There is too much too read, even with the TOC. What I want, instead, is distillation. I want the energy spent on meticulous comments to be redirected into simplification and reduction -- still with a few well-chosen comments for support. For comparison,…
Comment linking /hyperwordle/
on “Wordle in Python using literate programming”Submitted Show HN: A simple Wordle clone in 60 lines, using Hyperscript as a story · 111 points
HN discussionpretty cool little web site! https://arhamjain.com/typehand/
Comment linking /typehand/
on “Building a simple typing test website using hyperscript”Submitted Using Nim for Web Development in 2021 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I'm Writing Web Apps with Nim in 2026 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a simple typing test website using hyperscript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Nim for Web Development as a story · 1 points
HN discussion