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who?
Personal blog · cmcenroe.me · on HN as programbleprogramminghardware
who? is a personal blog at cmcenroe.me about programming and hardware. Since 2014, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Programming the Linux Framebuffer”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this personal site for a Linux frame buffer tutorial and for the Writ classless CSS project. The comments cover the tutorial and a layout bug report on Writ's reference page.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Programming the Linux Framebuffer4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-01-30
What Hacker News says?
On the reference page https://cmcenroe.me/writ/reference.html the aside note causes a horizontal scrollbar for me. Chromium 43.0.2357.81 (64-bit) on linux.
Comment linking /writ/reference.html
on “Writ – Opinionated, classless styles for semantic HTML”Submitted A Formula for the Number of Days in Each Month as a story · 222 points
HN discussionHere is a nice quick tutorial on using the frame buffer in Linux: https://cmcenroe.me/2018/01/30/fbclock.html
Comment linking /2018/01/30/fbclock.html
on “Show HN: A simple GUI Notepad using C++ natively made in my high school in 2015”Submitted Programming the Linux Framebuffer as a story · 164 points
HN discussionMore lines of code usually indicates more bugs so its not an entirely useless metric. Using it to gauge employee productivity is, since as the linked suggests some of the better programmers are able to remove code, which often reduces the potential for bugs. I personally find some use it in, if nothing else to identify which files probably need to be refactored as they are too large, or complex. Throw in some cyclom…
Comment linking /2018/12/14/uloc.html
on “Counting Lines of Code”Submitted Writ – Opinionated, classless styles for semantic HTML as a story · 150 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Tetris Clone in X86 Assembly, Pt. Ⅰ: Hello, World as a story · 71 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Tetris Clone in x86 Assembly, pt. Ⅱ: I/O as a story · 59 points
HN discussionSubmitted ASCII to My Heart as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Rust Appeals to Me as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming the Linux Framebuffer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming the Linux Framebuffer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming the Linux Framebuffer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted ASCII to My Heart as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chromebook as a Thin Client for Development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I made my own colour scheme and you can too as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted System V ABI Quick Reference as a story · 1 points
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