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Solarian Programmer
Personal blog · solarianprogrammer.comprogramming
Solarian Programmer is a personal blog at solarianprogrammer.com about programming. Since 2011, 27 different Hacker News readers have linked it 112 times, most often “Detect red circles in an image using OpenCV”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these C++ posts, including a C++11 multithreading tutorial and Clang 5 and C++17 guides for Docker and Raspberry Pi, plus a freelancing story. Commenters call the posts good and cool.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My ramblings about programming and productivity
Most-linked posts?
- Detect red circles in an image using OpenCV2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-09
- Compiling GCC on OS X2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-12-24
- C++11 threads tutorial 2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-28
- Living on the edge building gcc-4.7 on Mac OSX Lion2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-21
- Learn modern Objective-C on Windows with Clang and GNUSstep 2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-21
- Clang 5 in a Docker container for C++172 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-12-15
- Writing a minimal x86-64 JIT compiler in C++ (2018)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-14
- Life of a coder2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-10-25
- Using ANSI escape codes on Windows, macOS and Linux terminals2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-13
What Hacker News says?
As I see it you have 2 possibilities: 1. Find yourself work by handing cards ... just like you do now. I think it will eventually work after you land a few projects. 2. Use an aggregate freelancing site like oDesk, vWorker etc. Here is a link to an interesting story about freelancing on vWorker: http://solarianprogrammer.com/2011/10/24/my-life-freelancer/
Comment linking /2011/10/24/my-life-freelancer/
on “Ask HN: How do you sell yourself as a new freelancer to clients?”Submitted C++17 constexpr everything, or as much as the compiler can as a story · 182 points
HN discussionCheck this out: https://github.com/sol-prog Solarian programmer seems to be a talented C++ coder. Thanks for the projects. The Docker post was a niche thing. There's other posts for getting a system running with Clang 5 on other platforms: https://solarianprogrammer.com/2017/12/13/linux-wsl-install-... . Another cool post about C++17 and raspberry pi a few days earlier: https://solarianprogrammer.com/2017/12/08/rasp…
Comment linking /2017/12/08/raspberry-pi-raspbian-install-gcc-compile-cpp-17-programs/
on “Clang 5 in a Docker container for C++17”Submitted Writing a minimal x86-64 JIT compiler in C++, Part 2 as a story · 133 points
HN discussionLots of good posts there. Very mixed reviews on Amazon(.co.uk) of the book he recommends tho'[1] has anyone else got any opinions on it? [1] http://solarianprogrammer.com/2011/10/07/great-book-about-c1...
Comment linking /2011/10/07/great-book-about-c11-2/
on “C++11 multithreading tutorial”Submitted Chrome OS native development as a story · 113 points
HN discussionSame website look at the right links, or go directly here: http://solarianprogrammer.com/2012/02/20/living-on-the-edge-...
Comment linking /2012/02/20/living-on-the-edge-building-gcc-4-7-on-mac-osx-lion/
on “Building gcc-4.7 on Ubuntu 12.04”Submitted Building GCC as a Cross Compiler for Raspberry Pi as a story · 99 points
HN discussionAssuming you are talking about C++, there is no need for your wife to learn C in order to learn C++. C and C++ are different languages today, while it is still possible to write C code in C++, it is not recommended. Last year C++ was "upgraded" with a new standard C++11. If you want to learn modern C++ you will have to use a variety of websites. There is no good beginner C++11 book available for now. A few useful bl…
Comment linking /categories/C++11
on “Ask HN: learn cpp the hard way”Submitted Clang 5 in a Docker container for C++17 as a story · 95 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenGL 101: Matrices – projection, view, model as a story · 87 points
HN discussionSubmitted C99/C11 dynamic array that mimics C++'s std::vector as a story · 84 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Git with Dropbox as a story · 80 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sorting data in parallel CPU vs GPU as a story · 68 points
HN discussionSubmitted C++14 lambda tutorial as a story · 63 points
HN discussionSubmitted C++11 threads tutorial as a story · 60 points
HN discussionSubmitted C++11 multithreading tutorial as a story · 56 points
HN discussionSubmitted Detect red circles in an image using OpenCV as a story · 54 points
HN discussionSubmitted Compiling GCC 5 on OS X as a story · 53 points
HN discussionSubmitted C++11 async tutorial as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scheme in C++ as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing a minimal x86-64 JIT compiler in C++ (2018) as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted C++17 Filesystem – Writing a simple file watcher as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mandelbrot set in C++11 as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenGL 101: Textures as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scientific graphics in C# - part 2 as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Compiling GCC on OS X as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenCV video editing tutorial as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sorting data in parallel CPU vs GPU - In which we show more graphics as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Roguelike game in C++ - Adding a map to the game as a story · 8 points
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