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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.
Professional software engineer, amateur photographer and father
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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...
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on “Crafting “Crafting Interpreters””Submitted Benchmarks of Cache-Friendly Data Structures in C++ as a story · 126 points
HN discussionIf you'd like a summary of the book, my study notes are here: https://tylerayoung.com/2017/01/23/notes-on-game-programming...
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on “Game Programming Patterns (2014)”Submitted Architecting GenServers for Testability in Elixir as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI 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...
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on “Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a developer?”Submitted A Brief Guide to Hiring in Niche Languages Like Elixir as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Refactoring Toward Algorithms in Elixir as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shooting Yourself in the Foot with GenServers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A microframework for backfill migrations in Elixir's Ecto as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Translating User Interfaces Is Way Harder Than You Think as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Write More Pure Functions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Scary Story as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The World's Shortest Review of the 15-inch 2018 MBP as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How (and Why) to Ask for a Raise as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Help save the internet’s collective history as a story · 1 points
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