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Samuel Tardieu
Personal blog · rfc1149.net/blogprogrammingsystems
Samuel Tardieu writes An avian carrier's blog, a personal blog at rfc1149.net about programming and systems. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Samuel Tardieu's posts on a Forth environment for microcontrollers, a FLOSS Android app for emergency call alerts, and a 2013 post comparing Bitcoin to cash. None of the comments judge the writing.
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.
Samuel Tardieu's web site
What Hacker News says?
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned https://flashforth.com/ There is no intriguing backstory for it, like for CollapseOS, but it's a ~6 kiloword, practical 4th environment for Microchip PIC microcontrollers, which are a lot simpler than Z80, btw... The source code is trivial to understand too. My father is still using it daily to replace/substitute Caterpillar machine electronics or build custom instruments for…
Comment linking /devel/picforth.html
on “Collapse OS – Why Forth?”Submitted What is the difference between /dev/ttyUSB and /dev/ttyACM? (2013) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFor Android there is an fantastic FLOSS app called Harass Me that lets you set an amount of calls in a specific timeframe to make the phone turn up the volume and "harass you" to pick up. I have that setup for emergencies while my phone is silent otherwise. http://www.rfc1149.net/devel/harassme.html | https://github.com/samueltardieu/harassme
Comment linking /devel/harassme.html
on “Why I'm glad my iPhone broke”Submitted Defining new control structures using C macros as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFrom Coinbase website: Up to 97% of customer funds are stored offline in bank vaults to prevent theft or loss Visa/Mastercard/Amex take on the risk of deferred payment (you buy something today, and they don't get paid for a month). They compensate for this with merchant fees and high interest rates for those who don't pay. Bitcoin seems to suffer from similar problems as cash: https://www.rfc1149.net/blog/2013/05/02…
Comment linking /blog/2013/05/02/why-bitcoin-transfers-are-not-instantaneous/
on “GENIUS' MABOO ON BITCOIN”