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Sam Gentle
Personal blog · samgentle.com/posts · on HN as sgentleprogrammingphilosophy
Sam Gentle's personal blog at samgentle.com covers programming and philosophy. Since 2011, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 37 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Sam Gentle's blog for write-ups of his interactive projects, such as Automata by Example and Markov Contact, and for posts on procrastination as an emotion.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /posts/2017-01-14-automata-by-example3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-01-14
What Hacker News says?
Same Gentle had an interesting observation about procrastination: https://samgentle.com/posts/2016-09-16-what-changes follow up: https://samgentle.com/posts/2019-01-29-the-leverage-instinct
Comment linking /posts/2019-01-29-the-leverage-instinct
on “Procrastination is not a time management problem, it is an emotion”Submitted Chip as a story · 250 points
HN discussionThe embedded video at https://samgentle.com/posts/2015-08-21-universe-tuning doesn't work (it says it's private)
Comment linking /posts/2015-08-21-universe-tuning
on “Chip”Submitted Sabotage as a story · 165 points
HN discussionWriteup here: https://samgentle.com/posts/2017-01-14-automata-by-example
Comment linking /posts/2017-01-14-automata-by-example
on “Automata by Example – build cellular automata just by clicking around”Submitted Less is Moore as a story · 76 points
HN discussionThat's exactly why I'm a programmer, and why I've always had trouble with math. I won't say I only learn by example, but I need something tangible. Something I can pick up, squash, twist and break until I can feel what it's made of. Even if that manipulation occurs only in my head, and even if I've had to synthesise that tangibility from someone else's explanation. For me, that's the way things really are, and anyth…
Comment linking /playgrounds/bezier
on “Scrubbing Calculator (by Bret Victor, author of Kill Math)”Submitted Mixing Signals as a story · 66 points
HN discussionFrom the writeup, for those that wonder like me what's happening: The technique, which I think of as rule generation, is something a little like direct manipulation, but with an additional generalisation step. You click the pixel you want, but instead of just setting the pixel directly, the system figures out a rule that would set that pixel and applies that rule globally. In other words, you determine the rule from…
Comment linking /posts/2017-01-14-automata-by-example
on “Automata by Example – build cellular automata just by clicking around”Submitted Attritional interfaces as a story · 36 points
HN discussionLink to the writeup of Markov Contact: https://samgentle.com/posts/2016-12-11-markov-contact
Comment linking /posts/2016-12-11-markov-contact
on “Show HN: Markov Contact – a dynamic audio journey”Submitted Show HN: Tabletone – live looping in JavaScript as a story · 30 points
HN discussionWrite up: https://samgentle.com/posts/2017-01-14-automata-by-example
Comment linking /posts/2017-01-14-automata-by-example
on “Automata by Example – build cellular automata just by clicking around”Submitted Bayesian Democracy as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Bezier Playground as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Behind the silicon curtain as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Sorcerer's Apprentice as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The End of Kitchen Sink Social as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mere Aggregation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fibonacci's Infinite Sequence as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Surgeons, pilots and code monkeys as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Sound of Life as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning vs. training as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Being vs. doing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swastika emoji as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The many faces of code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Atonement as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fibonacci's Infinite Sequence as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sabotage as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Command-line interface for caniuse.com as a story · 2 points
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