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Sinclair Target
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Sinclair Target's personal blog at sinclairtarget.com covers programming. Since 2020, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Quality in the Age of Slop”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-01, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- Quality in the Age of Slop4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-06-02
- The Differential Analyzer (2020)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-12
- Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-04
What Hacker News says?
One thing to note, maybe particularly with reference to the “who wrote vim” analysis⁰, is that depending on workflow this can attribute more to internal contributors than you might assume by the results. If a patch or pull request is sent but an internal contributor (the only internal contributor in Vim's case for a long time) reformatted it before merging then the same work is double-counted (if full history is kep…
Comment linking /blog/2025/03/who-will-maintain-vim-a-demo-of-git-who/
on “Show HN: "Git who" – A new CLI tool for industrial-scale Git blaming”Submitted Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig as a story · 451 points
HN discussionThere was an interesting post comparing Zig and Rust and Go here yesterday: https://sinclairtarget.com/blog/2025/08/thoughts-on-go-vs.-r... Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46153466
Comment linking /blog/2025/08/thoughts-on-go-vs.-rust-vs.-zig/
on “Synadia and TigerBeetle Pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation”Submitted The Differential Analyzer (2020) as a story · 21 points
HN discussion> But use after free absolutely results in the same kinds of errors (accessing unused memory, or memory used by someone else). That two bugs result in the same or similar outcome doesn't mean they're as common or as equally exploitable, which is why, in practice, it is distinctly a more dangerous weakness in the lists maintained by MITRE. > I also don't understand how one can sidestep the issue of ownership of memor…
Comment linking /blog/2025/09/getting-my-allocators-straight/
on “Zig and the design choices within”Submitted Quality in the Age of Slop as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quality in the Age of Slop as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quality in the Age of AI Slop as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Trellis: A Gardening Metaphor for Software Engineering as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Differential Analyzer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quality in the Age of Slop as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted More Tagged Union Subsets with Comptime in Zig as a story · 1 points
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