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Troydm's Blog

Personal blog · troydm.github.io/blogprogrammingsystems

Troydm's Blog is a personal blog at troydm.github.io about programming and systems. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “A micro compiler in Ocaml”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2014–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2014

TL;DR Writing your own Ruby DSL language to sync and manage your public and private dotfiles As number of computers I own increased over the years …

Most-linked posts?

  1. A micro compiler in Ocaml
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-04-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. joaobatalha · 2014-04-01

    Submitted A micro compiler in Ocaml as a story · 63 points

    HN discussion
  2. notagoodidea · 2025-08-19

    Submitted Writing Micro Compiler in OCaml (2014) as a story · 28 points

    HN discussion
  3. nkurz · 2015-08-07

    Submitted Lifting Shadows Off a Memory Allocation as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  4. copx · 2014-01-30

    Submitted Making 30-Year-Old Pascal Code Run Again as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion

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