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Oleksii Shmalko
Personal blog · alexeyshmalko.comprogrammingsystems
Oleksii Shmalko's personal blog at alexeyshmalko.com covers programming and systems. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on Haskell's string type and on bkernel, a hobby operating system written in Rust. Comments cite them as examples or related work, without judging them.
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.
My name is Oleksii Shmalko.
What Hacker News says?
> Rust can be difficult to learn, but the Rust community does a great job of explaining (and re-explaining in many cases) Rust's approach to newcomers. Whilst communicating why and how things work is certainly important (all of the Haskell monad tutorials come to mind!), I was actually refering to cases where "Haskell's approach" is known to be bad . For example: http://www.alexeyshmalko.com/2015/haskell-string-type…
Comment linking /2015/haskell-string-types
on “New haskell-lang.org”Submitted Learn It Yourself (2019) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf I understand correctly, Phil started writing his series first. That tutorial prompted several people to start working on their own hobby OS, including Steve's and another one here: http://www.randomhacks.net/bare-metal-rust/ . I think Redox was already underway when Phil started writing, but I may be mixing up my timelines. Edit: There is also http://www.alexeyshmalko.com/2015/bkernel-a-rust-operating-s... Phil h…
Comment linking /2015/bkernel-a-rust-operating-system/
on “Writing an OS in Rust”40+. Have been viming since 1999-2000. SublimeText + vim mode has been my weapon of choice since like 2012-2013. It works out of the box and is the most compatible with my muscle memory (tried VSCode's vim emulation, RealVim, PyCharm's vim mode — hell, it's 120 chars per line by default). Onivim2 seemed promising but it's still not there. What I really like in Vim is not Vim itself, but modal editing, mouse-free nav…
Comment linking /20200830010958/
on “Ask HN: Is Vim still worth learning?”