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Tom Mewett
Personal blog · tmewett.comprogrammingsystems
Tom Mewett's personal blog at tmewett.com covers programming and systems. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Everything I wish I knew when learning C”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Shared in an HN thread on learning C in 2022 as a tips post for C learners. The commenter found it informative and linked it as a resource.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Everything I wish I knew when learning C2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-28
- How to develop on Windows: comparing native, MinGW, Cygwin, WSL2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-13
- Review: Why the Lucky Stiff2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-09
What Hacker News says?
This was posted a couple of days ago and I found it pretty informative. https://tmewett.com/c-tips/ Edit: I guess search isn't indexing stories for a while now. Here is that post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33773043
Comment linking /c-tips/
on “Ask HN: How to Learn C in 2022?”Submitted How to develop on Windows: comparing native, MinGW, Cygwin, WSL as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything I wish I knew when learning C as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developing on Windows: Comparing Native, MinGW, Cygwin, WSL as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Review: Why the Lucky Stiff as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Untangling polymorphism: generics, overloading, subtyping, variance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixed-Point Numbers: An Introduction as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Review: Why the Lucky Stiff as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Homemade incremental programming, part 1: how and why to abolish update code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted React is more than UI–it's a side-effect framework as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted React-like declarative components for the whole family as a story · 1 points
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