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Victor Shepelev
Personal blog · zverok.substack.comprogrammingwriting
Victor Shepelev writes zverok on lucid code, a personal blog at zverok.substack.com about programming and writing. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Following the programming language evolution, and taking it personally”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Victor Shepelev's blog for reflections on Sudoku and rule-based program design. The one comment cites his TDD one-shot Gilded Rose solution and his approach of codifying rules as relationships.
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.
How and why we write the way we write (code).
Most-linked posts?
- Following the programming language evolution, and taking it personally2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-13
What Hacker News says?
I had a similar reaction to Jeffries' Gilded Rose solution in Ruby [1]. After 13 blog posts he ended up with something [2] a lot less elegant than Victor Shepelev who also used TDD but came up with a one-shot solution [3]. Just like Norvig with his Sudoku solver, Shepelev codifies the rules as a set of relationships. He writes: When rereading the requirements, we might notice that all conditions can be described as…
Comment linking /i/149071314/the-implementation
on “Reflections on Sudoku, or the Impossibility of Systematizing Thought”Submitted The end of "Useless Ruby sugar": On intuitions and evolutions as a story · 133 points
HN discussionSubmitted What you can learn by merely writing a programming language changelog as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Following the programming language evolution, and taking it personally as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Following the programming language evolution, and taking it personally as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Language, perception, and empathy: Ukrainian's gaze as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Victor Shepelev – How I tried to invent a new query language feature and failed as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wikipedia and irregular data: how much can you fetch in one expression? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming language evolution: with all that, we are still flying as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thinking about tests: assertions and matchers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes on code, text, and war. Week 1: Believing in text as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted "Useless syntax sugar": Numeric block parameters as a story · 1 points
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