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Tyler A. Young

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Tyler A. Young's personal blog at tylerayoung.com covers programming. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-13, and you can follow it by feed.

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2016–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2022

Professional software engineer, amateur photographer and father

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  1. Agreed. I got a lot out of Game Programming Patterns. My notes, if anyone wants a summary, are here: https://tylerayoung.com/2017/01/23/notes-on-game-programming...

    Comment linking /2017/01/23/notes-on-game-programming-patterns-by-robert-nystrom/

    on “Crafting “Crafting Interpreters””
  2. Submitted Benchmarks of Cache-Friendly Data Structures in C++ as a story · 126 points

    HN discussion
  3. If you'd like a summary of the book, my study notes are here: https://tylerayoung.com/2017/01/23/notes-on-game-programming...

    Comment linking /2017/01/23/notes-on-game-programming-patterns-by-robert-nystrom/

    on “Game Programming Patterns (2014)”
  4. Submitted Architecting GenServers for Testability in Elixir as a story · 5 points

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  5. I recently upgraded from my 2015 rMBP to the 2018 model you’re looking at. I agree the Touch Bar is a dumb gimmick (for a dev’s purposes at least), but the keyboard has grown on me, and the 6-core/12-thread CPU is a serious boon for dev work. I wrote up a few more details here: https://tylerayoung.com/2018/07/23/the-worlds-shortest-revie...

    Comment linking /2018/07/23/the-worlds-shortest-review-of-the-15-inch-2018-mbp/

    on “Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a developer?”
  6. Submitted A Brief Guide to Hiring in Niche Languages Like Elixir as a story · 3 points

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  7. Submitted Refactoring Toward Algorithms in Elixir as a story · 3 points

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  8. Submitted Shooting Yourself in the Foot with GenServers as a story · 3 points

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  9. Submitted A microframework for backfill migrations in Elixir's Ecto as a story · 2 points

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  10. Submitted Translating User Interfaces Is Way Harder Than You Think as a story · 2 points

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  11. Submitted Write More Pure Functions as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted A Scary Story as a story · 1 points

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  13. Submitted The World's Shortest Review of the 15-inch 2018 MBP as a story · 1 points

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  14. Submitted How (and Why) to Ask for a Raise as a story · 1 points

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  15. Submitted Help save the internet’s collective history as a story · 1 points

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