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The Breakfast Post
Personal blog · thebreakfastpost.com · on HN as cannamprogrammingmath
The Breakfast Post is a personal blog at thebreakfastpost.com about programming and math. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Naming conventions in Standard ML”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Naming conventions in Standard ML3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-08-21
- Notes on Idris (2017)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-12-02
- Four MLs (and a Python)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-29
What Hacker News says?
I did a toy comparison of ML-derived languages running on Linux the other day ( http://thebreakfastpost.com/2015/04/22/four-mls-and-a-python... ) and found F# already simple to get along with and fast to run, at this beginner level. It could become a really interesting option.
Comment linking /2015/04/22/four-mls-and-a-python/
on “Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac”Submitted Four MLs (and a Python) as a story · 176 points
HN discussionRepoint, a thingy for checking out and versioning your source code dependencies - for situations where you don't have a good language-specific source package manager to hand. https://thebreakfastpost.com/2018/05/18/repoint-a-manager-fo... https://github.com/cannam/repoint I wrote this because, as is normal, I was slightly dissatisfied with all the options I could find that would work with the language and hosting co…
Comment linking /2018/05/18/repoint-a-manager-for-checkouts-of-third-party-source-code-dependencies/
on “Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?”Submitted Notes on Idris (2017) as a story · 163 points
HN discussionMiyazaki is a fascinating person to read about, because of his combination of luminous creativity, clarity, and lightness with plain ordinary hard work, grumpiness, and pessimism. His two books of essay-ish fragments, Starting Point and Turning Point, are well worth looking out. The documentary film "The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness" is rather good too. (Here's a rather solipsistic piece I wrote about Starting Poin…
Comment linking /2021/01/05/hayao-miyazaki-and-work/
on “The great Miyazaki watch of 2022”Submitted SML and OCaml: Why was OCaml faster? as a story · 83 points
HN discussionThe situation with older buildings in central Berlin is quite interesting though, because so many quite grand buildings on the eastern side went untouched for 50 years after the war. Then in the late 90s large areas of east-central Berlin were restored at some speed, from bullet-holed crumbling blackened stone to smart painted render in what I assume was something like the original style. I once wrote a rather perso…
Comment linking /2014/09/23/alte-schonhauser-strase/
on “Where the wall once stood”Submitted Four MLs and a Python (2015) as a story · 64 points
HN discussionMine, tentatively, is that the binding is made by declaration order, not by name: struct { int a; int b; } x { 1, 2 }; auto [b, a] = x; Now b is 1 and a is 2, even though in the original structure b was 2 and a was 1. This is contrary to how most other languages with this feature behave. (I wrote a bit about this once: https://thebreakfastpost.com/2017/11/15/c17-destructuring-bi... ) I haven't had the opportunity to…
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on “C++17 Features That Will Make Your Code Simpler”Submitted What does a convolutional neural net actually do when you run it? as a story · 26 points
HN discussionThank you! Did you notice this one? https://thebreakfastpost.com/2016/06/11/naming-conventions-i... It's definitely a bikeshed moment, but I had meant to drop you a line to ask you why you chose This_Sort_Of_Naming for structures in Ponyo. It seemed a bit of an outlier. I'm delighted to see you're still doing bits of work on Ponyo. I have a pleasant pipe-dream that, while frameworks and libraries for other languages…
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on “Four MLs and a Python (2015)”Submitted Notes on Idris as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI've a great affection for Minolta, though born from retro appeal because I am not old enough to have seen their best stuff first time around. I'd love to know more about how the company operated during the 50s to 70s. Their 1970s models, the X1, XE, and XD seem technically really exciting but don't appear to have held the attention of the professional market - unreliable, lacking something important, too expensive,…
Comment linking /2020/03/12/notes-on-the-minolta-sr-1-model-b/
on “Minolta X1 (2007)”Submitted Naming conventions in Standard ML as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is music recommendation difficult? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rubber Band Library v1.8.2 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted F# has possibilities as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted FFTs in JavaScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Standard ML and how I'm compiling it as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Naming conventions in Standard ML (2016) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Repoint: a simple manager for third-party source code dependencies as a story · 1 points
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