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Nathan Wiegand
Personal blog · nathanwiegand.com/wpprogrammingsystems
Nathan Wiegand's personal blog at nathanwiegand.com covers programming and systems. Since 2010, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Lessons I should have learned, Ep. 4: Coroutines in C”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on Simon Tatham's coroutines-in-C article as a related post. The only comment is a bare link to a post whose URL suggests it covers lessons the author wishes he had learned earlier.
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.
Ramblings
Most-linked posts?
- Lessons I should have learned, Ep. 4: Coroutines in C2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-04-22
What Hacker News says?
A related post: http://nathanwiegand.com/wp/2010/04/lessons-i-should-have-le...
Comment linking /wp/2010/04/lessons-i-should-have-learned-episode-4-coroutines-in-c/
on “Coroutines in C (Simon Tatham, 2000)”Submitted The ugliest code I ever wrote: a parser generator in XSLT as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Funion - a unioning filesystem written in Haskell as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Taking MapReduce to Monte Carlo as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The problem is timid edits. as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons I should have learned, Ep. 4: Coroutines in C as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Profiling C with Haskell as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The problem is timid edits as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hot swapping binaries as a story · 2 points
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