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Schemescape
Personal blog · log.schemescape.comprogrammingsystems
Schemescape is a personal blog at log.schemescape.com about programming and systems. Since 2022, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Hacking SimCity 2000 saved games”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Hacking SimCity 2000 saved games2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-29
- Farewell to a Netbook2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-09
- Future-Proof Programming Languages2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-18
- The smallest embeddable scripting language, part 12 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-31
- A 450 KB static site generator based on Markdown and Lua2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-17
What Hacker News says?
From one of blog posts [0]: Nim Nim is the language that impressed me the most in this batch. Everything I thought would be a problem (significant whitespace, choose-your-own-function syntax, intermediate C compliation step) didn't bother me at all. The small sample of the standard library I played with was a little quirky, but Nim seems like excellent bang for your buck. Notes: - Release binary was only 120 KB (lin…
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on “Solving the first 100 Project Euler problems using 100 languages”Submitted Hacking SimCity 2000 saved games as a story · 48 points
HN discussionThe author wrote a short comment about each language in the following blogposts: https://log.schemescape.com/posts/100-languages/index.html
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on “Solving the first 100 Project Euler problems using 100 languages”Submitted Python is the new Basic as a story · 31 points
HN discussion- posts page is down? - https://log.schemescape.com/posts/
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on “Hacking SimCity 2000 saved games”Submitted The smallest embeddable scripting language, part 1 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttps://log.schemescape.com/posts/programming-languages/comp... "A good way to discourage me from testing out your software is to require a gigabyte (or more) download (and no, providing an installer that obscures the massive download is not a solution). The chief offender of inexplicably enormous downloads is, unfortunately, anything related to compiling software for Windows. Want to use the free edition of Microso…
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on “Python is the new Basic”Submitted It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://log.schemescape.com/posts/programming-languages/futu... "Future-proof programming languages, part 3 March 3, 2023 SDK size (measured on x86_64 Alpine Linux), as a proxy for simplicity Just looking at SDK size, Rust is an outlier. Even compared to a similarly complex language like C++, the Rust SDK is absolutely huge. Even after allowing for a build tool, custom linker, and standard library, the Rust SDK is d…
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on “Python is the new Basic”Submitted Hacking SimCity 2000 saved games as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://log.schemescape.com/posts/programming-languages/pyth...
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on “Python is the new Basic”Submitted Optimizing for Text-Mode Browsers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI recently did sort of the inverse as an experiment: put a button in a frame to avoid reloading the main page: https://log.schemescape.com/posts/web-development/interactiv...
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on “10 Weird HTML Hacks That Shaped the Internet”Submitted Farewell to a Netbook as a story · 3 points
HN discussionA related article I read yesterday lamented that 1GB of RAM isn't enough to run a graphical browser anymore (1). Sure JavaScript runs fast now, but at the cost of the code size of the average website being unnecessarily large. This is because speedy js and speedy network connectivity allows for more code, more network requests. Another example of Wirth's law. This was the case when I got a Rapberry Pi 4 with 1GB of…
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on “During Helene, I Just Wanted a Plain Text Website”Submitted Using the Xteink X4, a minimalist e-reader as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://log.schemescape.com/ Currently mostly about Common Lisp and releasing a programming game on Steam… and static site generators :)
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Beating Myself at Chess as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis sounds almost exactly like something I whipped up in the early 2000s [1]. Each post was its own directory (so I could just drop images in), and it used file system metadata for dates. It was based on Bash, ImageMagick, sed, m4, head, tr, and... XSLT (I swear it seemed like a good idea at the time!). Believe it or not, the tool actually even worked with Cygwin after I switched to Windows (on my very first laptop…
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on “How to Start Your Blog in 2023”Submitted A 450 KB static site generator based on Markdown and Lua as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI hadn't heard of this issue with SBCL before so I went searching for it. I guess you're referring to this: https://log.schemescape.com/posts/lisp/sbcl-file-perf-window... That article points out that the issue arises only on Windows. Do you have any evidence of such an issue on Linux or other OS?
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on “Why vibe code in Common Lisp?”Submitted The smallest embeddable scripting language, part 1 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Hobby Is Bikeshedding? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Minimal IRC server from scratch in Python as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Future-Proof Programming Languages as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finding a new web host for this blog as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A 450 KB static site generator based on Markdown and Lua as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Future-Proof Programming Languages as a story · 1 points
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