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Winston Cooke
Personal blog · winstoncooke.com/blog · on HN as winstonrcprogramminggamesdesign
Winston Cooke's personal blog at winstoncooke.com covers programming, games and design. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on engineers building ledgers as a basic introduction to accounting, which covers the fundamentals for people building financial software. Only a bare link, with no comment on the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/a-basic-introduction-to-accounting2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-10
What Hacker News says?
A Basic Introduction to Accounting[0]. [0]: https://www.winstoncooke.com/blog/a-basic-introduction-to-ac...
Comment linking /blog/a-basic-introduction-to-accounting
on “Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers”Submitted Rotation-Based Compression as a story · 35 points
HN discussionI’m biased, but I hope my explanation[0] is more intuitive coming from a CPA. [0]: https://www.winstoncooke.com/blog/a-basic-introduction-to-ac...
Comment linking /blog/a-basic-introduction-to-accounting
on “Double-entry bookkeeping as a directed graph”Submitted AI Coding Assistants as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThanks to your collection, I had an absolute blast going down a silly rabbit hole of compression. https://www.winstoncooke.com/blog/rotation-based-compression...
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on “10 Years of Pomological Watercolors”Submitted Making a Game for the Playdate as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI built the nav bar at the top of my website[0] to be scrollable if the content doesn’t fit horizontally. I’m slightly concerned about users not realizing there are more options to scroll over, but I prefer it to a hamburger menu that has to open and cover the content since you can see every option and read the corresponding word. No need for any of that when visiting on a desktop however. [0] https://www.winstoncoo…
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on “The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop”I built a fake terminal on my website[0]. I've been planning on building an actual one that is compiled to WASM, but it was fun building the little features such as a memory of entered commands that can be navigated by pressing up and down with the arrow keys. This looks like a great resource for me to take it to the next level. Are there any concerns I should be aware of if I were to deploy a working terminal on a…
Comment linking /terminal
on “Write Your Own Terminal”If it helps anyone, I wrote a blog post[0] (based on this comment[1]) explaining how double-entry accounting works. I have recently been thinking about building my own program that implements double-entry accounting in a more approachable form for individuals. I’m not sure if pure accounting concepts are ideal for the average person for keeping track of their budget like how they are essential for businesses. My bia…
Comment linking /blog/2023-10-20-a-basic-introduction-to-accounting
on “GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide”I wrote a brief article discussing my thoughts on playing 240p games on a CRT compared to a modern display[0]. It’s hard to perfectly convey, but the picture really does look exceptional and so much better than on a modern display and is something worth seeing in person. The MiSTer FPGA does an excellent job with filters to recreate that experience but isn’t 100% there yet. The Analogue Pocket also does a great job…
Comment linking /blog/2023-08-26-appreciating-240p
on “How Games Used to Look: Why Retro Gaming on a CRT Looks Different [video]”I have two places I store photos: a gallery[0] of curated photos on my personal website, and a larger stream of photos backed up to my NAS. The photos on my NAS replicate what I capture with my phone. I actively delete photos of the mundane such as a random snap of food I cooked. I let the iOS photos app automatically create albums of people and places and display those as a widget on my home screen. I go through it…
Comment linking /gallery
on “Ask HN: How do you manage photos, philosophically?”