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Sean Werkema
Personal blog · werkema.comprogrammingculture
Sean Werkema's personal blog at werkema.com covers programming and culture. Since 2014, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on the SpaceMonger 1.x disk-usage tool and its open-source release, and for a note on an error in Knuth's printed exercise solutions. The comments only cite or link these posts.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- /programming/the-spacemonger-1-x-post-mortem/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-07
What Hacker News says?
Just learned that Space Monger 1.4 has been open sourced for a while now https://github.com/seanofw/spacemonger1 Accompanying blog post https://www.werkema.com/programming/the-spacemonger-1-x-post...
Comment linking /programming/the-spacemonger-1-x-post-mortem/
on “WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics”Submitted Smile: a programming language based on Lisp and Smalltalk as a story · 6 points
HN discussionFor more general algorithms along these lines, see exercises 25–28 in section 1.2.2 of Knuth[1] (and note that the printed solution to exercise 28 in early printings has an error[2]). [1] D.E. Knuth, The art of computer programming. Vol. 1 , third edition, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1997. [2] https://www.werkema.com/2021/10/14/my-knuth-check/
Comment linking /2021/10/14/my-knuth-check/
on “Reciprocal Approximation with 1 Subtraction”Submitted We Don't Talk about Semicolons (2022) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere is an open source version of this: https://www.werkema.com/programming/the-spacemonger-1-x-post...
Comment linking /programming/the-spacemonger-1-x-post-mortem/
on “SpaceMonger”Submitted React Considered Harmful as a story · 1 points
HN discussion