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Peter Hosey
Personal blog · boredzo.org/blogprogrammingproductivity
Peter Hosey's personal blog at boredzo.org covers programming and productivity. Since 2007, 27 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times, most often “Everything you need to know about pointers in C”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Peter Hosey's personal blog, best known to HN readers for its C pointers tutorial with box diagrams. Commenters point to it as a learning resource on pointers, and also link his Mac and vi pages.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Everything you need to know about pointers in C7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2010-04-28
- Pointers in C (2010)6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2018-06-27
- How ClickToFlash works2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-01-31
- Let the user help solve their own problem2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-15
What Hacker News says?
When graphical gimmics steal the show: https://boredzo.org/pointers/boxes.png visualizes both pointers and their target (an integer) as 3d boxes. So the sizeof(int) is the edge length of this target? Normally we see such guiding images with 2d boxes. There's nothing wrong with 3d because clearly, integers are also not 2d (they are not even 1d). However, don't associate the size of theses boxes with the memory size o…
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on “Pointers in C (2010)”Submitted Colorized man pages as a story · 358 points
HN discussionAnother tutorial about pointers that I found quite nicely written is http://boredzo.org/pointers/ .
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on “The 5-minute Guide to C Pointers”Submitted Pointers in C (2010) as a story · 214 points
HN discussionMight it be this?: http://boredzo.org/pointers/ or possibly this (pdf warning): http://home.earthlink.net/~momotuk/pointers.pdf
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on “What do you want to see in Learn C The Hard Way?”Submitted I upgraded my iBook G4 to have an SSD as a story · 156 points
HN discussionFor Mac OS X you have clicktoflash for blocking flash but it isn't a browser add-on, rather a plugin (similar to Flash, Silverlight etc.) Technical details: http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2009-01-29/how-clicktoflash... I'd love to see a similar plugin on Linux for Firefox, Chromium etc. http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2009-01-29/how-clicktoflash...
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on “Why Chrome has No NoScript”Submitted Everything you need to know about pointers in C as a story · 36 points
HN discussionOh, wow! This is the creator of Glypha ( https://boredzo.org/glypha/ ). I spent countless hours playing that game in the mid-ish 90's. Like so many games back then, you could tweak things with ResEdit. Nobody would believe my high score because they knew i could modify it.
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on “Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple”Submitted Unicode date formats, YYYY? as a story · 30 points
HN discussionDvorak version: http://boredzo.org/vi_tutorial/vi_tutorial-Dvorak-Color.pdf
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on “vi(m) cheatsheet”Submitted Everything you need to know about pointers in C (2010) as a story · 26 points
HN discussionThe author of this article had put up a whole post on pointers in c which to date is what I use to refresh my memory. https://boredzo.org/pointers/ This along with the pointers by Nick Parlante helped me get over my pointers Heebie-jeebies. http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/102/PointersAndMemory.pdf
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on “Moving Away from Algorithmic Curation”Submitted Let the user help solve their own problem as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted The worst possible Hello World program as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything you need to know about pointers in C as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ebooks of “The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs” as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Masks are good and we should keep wearing them as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything you need to know about pointers in C as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's not you–Betty Crocker's directions are wrong as a story · 3 points
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Submitted Everything you need to know about pointers in C as a story · 3 points
HN discussion Submitted How to QA as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything you need to know about pointers in C as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything you need to know about pointers in C as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything you need to know about pointers in C as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The to-do graph as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything you need to know about pointers in C as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vim cheat sheet, Dvorak version as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Viewing old hintbooks without a red gel viewer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let the user help solve their own problem as a story · 1 points
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