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The Digital Cat
Personal blog · thedigitalcatonline.com/blogprogrammingsystems
The Digital Cat is a personal blog at thedigitalcatonline.com about programming and systems. Since 2019, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Mau: a lightweight markup language”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link The Digital Cat for its Amiga exploration series, a post on Mau, a markdown-like ebook format, and a post on RSA PEM key prefixes. Comments mostly cite posts or report feed problems.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The Digital Cat
Most-linked posts?
- Mau: a lightweight markup language3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-02-23
- Delegation: Composition and inheritance in object-oriented programming2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-18
- Exploring the Amiga – Part 1 (2018)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-09
- Data Partitioning and Consistent Hashing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-23
- "Exploring the Amiga" blog series (2018)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-09
What Hacker News says?
Mau reminds me of this markdown-like implementation for ebooks: https://www.thedigitalcatonline.com/blog/2021/02/22/mau-a-li...
Comment linking /blog/2021/02/22/mau-a-lightweight-markup-language/
on “Show HN: I'm making a dynamic language in Rust”Submitted Exploring the Amiga – Part 1 (2018) as a story · 90 points
HN discussionJust a heads up to the author. Your global Atom RSS feed seems to be broken. https://www.thedigitalcatonline.com/atom.xml The one for retro is ok.
Comment linking /atom.xml
on “Exploring the Amiga – Part 1 (2018)”Submitted "Exploring the Amiga" blog series (2018) as a story · 27 points
HN discussionThis appears to link to all 8 parts: https://www.thedigitalcatonline.com/categories/amiga/
Comment linking /categories/amiga/
on “Exploring the Amiga – Part 1 (2018)”Submitted Data Partitioning and Consistent Hashing as a story · 17 points
HN discussionNope. See https://www.thedigitalcatonline.com/blog/2018/04/25/rsa-keys... for example: "Please note that, due to the structure of the underlying ASN.1 structure, RSA PEM bodies start always with the same characters: MIG for 1024 bit keys, MII for 2048 and 4096 bit ones."
Comment linking /blog/2018/04/25/rsa-keys/
on “OpenSSH 9.5 released with keystroke timing obfuscation”Submitted Dissecting a Web Stack as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploring the Amiga – Part 1 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mau: a lightweight markup language as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Delegation: Composition and inheritance in object-oriented programming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Delegation: Composition and inheritance in object-oriented programming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Motorola 68000: Addressing Modes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Partitioning and Consistent Hashing (2022) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Public key cryptography: OpenSSH private keys as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mau: A Lightweight Markup Language as a story · 1 points
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