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Sam Koblenski
Personal blog · sam-koblenski.blogspot.comprogrammingweb
Sam Koblenski writes Lucid Mesh, a personal blog at sam-koblenski.blogspot.com about programming and web. Since 2013, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 246 times, most often “Everyday DSP for Programmers: Basic Signals”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its Everyday DSP for Programmers series of signal processing articles with JavaScript examples, and one post on how chess skills relate to programming.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Everyday DSP for Programmers: Basic Signals3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-08-21
- Tech Book Face Off: Facts and Fallacies of SW Engineering vs. Programming Pearls2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-24
- Everyday DSP for Programmers: Edge Detection2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-01
- The Best Steve Yegge Posts2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-05
- Tech Book Face Off: Gödel, Escher, Bach vs. The Annotated Turing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-19
- What Chess Can Teach Us About Programming2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-12-19
What Hacker News says?
http://sam-koblenski.blogspot.com/2015/08/everyday-dsp-for-p...
Comment linking /2015/08/everyday-dsp-for-programmers-basic.html
on “Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?”Submitted Everyday DSP for Programmers: Signal Envelopes as a story · 93 points
HN discussionEveryday DSP for Programmers(JavaScript) http://sam-koblenski.blogspot.com/2015/08/everyday-dsp-for-p...
Comment linking /2015/08/everyday-dsp-for-programmers-basic.html
on “The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing (1999)”Submitted Everyday Statistics for Programmers: Nonlinear Regression as a story · 63 points
HN discussionThat is very well done. There's a whole series of those articles; start at [1]. [1] http://sam-koblenski.blogspot.com/2015/08/everyday-dsp-for-p...
Comment linking /2015/08/everyday-dsp-for-programmers-basic.html
on “Everyday DSP for Programmers: Signal Envelopes”Submitted A Year and a Half With a Nissan Leaf (Part 2): The Summer Drive as a story · 63 points
HN discussionfrom the first google result for "chess programming skills", this article ( http://sam-koblenski.blogspot.com/2013/12/what-can-chess-tea... ) gives a few thoughts on why chess skills can translate into good programming skills.
Comment linking /2013/12/what-can-chess-teach-us-about.html
on “Ask HN: Do you play Chess?”Submitted A Year and a Half With a Nissan Leaf (Part 1): The Acquisition as a story · 53 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tech Book Face Off: The Pragmatic Programmer Vs. Code Complete as a story · 47 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ender's Game is an Understated Story of Uncertainty as a story · 40 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reflections on Programming as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted College Is Much More Than a Means to a Higher Salary as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted Face It: You Can't Predict the Future as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Comment Your Code - Write Better Code as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Best Steve Yegge Posts as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted An EV Future is Inevitable as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everyday DSP for Programmers: FIR Filters as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everyday DSP for Programmers: Edge Detection as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tech Book Face Off: How to Design Programs vs. SICP as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tech Book Face Off: The Edward Tufte Trilogy as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tech Book Face Off: Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks vs. CUDA by Example as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Memorization vs. Observation as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted All in Good Fun: Learning with Lego Video Games as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tech Book Face Off: Physics of the Impossible vs. The Physics of Star Trek as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everyday DSP for Programmers: Sampling Theory as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Playing with Gravity to Learn CUDA: A Fundamental Force as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tech Books I Will Read Again as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tech Book Face Off: Python for Data Analysis vs. Python Data Science Handbook as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploring Simple Game Algorithms with Color Walk: DFS as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everyday DSP for Programmers: Transforms as a story · 5 points
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