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World Playground Deceit
Personal blog · world-playground-deceit.net/blog · on HN as BoingBoomTschakprogramming
World Playground Deceit is a personal blog at world-playground-deceit.net about programming. Since 2024, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked on HN for a post on speeding up a Common Lisp jq replacement, and for its website colophon page describing the site's technology. One commenter praises the speedup; others cite the colophon as an example.
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?
- /2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-09-20
- /blog/2025/03/speeding-up-cljqalbum.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-29
What Hacker News says?
I don't see why my point is that hard to see: the "do one thing" part of the UNIX philosophy is a good ideal to aim for, even if often ignored in favour of a more convenient kitchen sink approach. I then just mentioned that a good majority of these useful Rust tools (I really like hyperfine and oxipng, for example) don't seem to care much about it. Some example of that idea I use every day is https://codemadness.org…
Comment linking /blog/2024/10/sfeed-setup.html
on “fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'”Submitted A Common Lisp jq replacement as a story · 155 points
HN discussionShilling mine (not as decoupled and extensive as those), since it's quite on point: https://git.sr.ht/~q3cpma/website/tree/master/item/src/resou... https://world-playground-deceit.net/ These make me want to go all the way.
Comment linking /
on “98.css – A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs”Submitted Closures in Tcl as a story · 82 points
HN discussionAlso made a post some time ago about the issue: https://world-playground-deceit.net/blog/2024/09/bourne_shel... About the commands that don't buffer, this is either implementation dependent or even wrong in the case of cat (cf https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/c... and `-u`). Massive pain that POSIX never included an official way to manage this. Not mentioned is input buffering, that would g…
Comment linking /blog/2024/09/bourne_shell_stdio_trivia.html
on “Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering”Submitted Fast SEQUENCE iteration in Common Lisp as a story · 60 points
HN discussionAnd it's yet another terrible DSL that you must learn when it could have been a language everybody already knows, like Python. The query part isn't even that well done, compared to XPath/JSONPath. I said goodbye to it a few weeks ago, personally ( https://world-playground-deceit.net/blog/2025/03/a-common-li... https://world-playground-deceit.net/blog/2025/03/speeding-up... )
Comment linking /blog/2025/03/speeding-up-cljqalbum.html
on “Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust”Submitted Adding keyword parameters to Tcl procs as a story · 58 points
HN discussionTrying to bring the finishing touches to a Common Lisp SSG I made during a handful of vacation afternoons ( https://git.sr.ht/~q3cpma/make-website ) and filling the resulting website ( https://world-playground-deceit.net/ ) with more content. More motivated by #2 now that the generator does 99% of what I need.
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?”Submitted Why I Like Tcl as a story · 26 points
HN discussionFrom commenter's website [1], "About" section: > living a loveless life in the dusk of decadent Western Europe If it quacks like a duck... [1] https://world-playground-deceit.net/about/me.html
Comment linking /about/me.html
on “Multiple Russian Threat Actors Targeting Microsoft Device Code Authentication”Submitted Smuggling files under Google's nose as a story · 20 points
HN discussionLooks like this post I made can serve again: https://world-playground-deceit.net/blog/2024/10/why-tcl.htm... But to be honest, while I feel like Perl has a lot of advantages (full perlre, full access to POSIX APIs, slightly better performance), I still can't look at it and keep my last meal down. Tcl having an event loop and Tk being native are pretty nice too.
Comment linking /blog/2024/10/why-tcl.html
on “Tcl Tutorial”Submitted Ogg Vorbis cover art embedding: Tcl vs. Common Lisp as a story · 9 points
HN discussionGood performance improvement here: https://world-playground-deceit.net/blog/2025/03/speeding-up...
Comment linking /blog/2025/03/speeding-up-cljqalbum.html
on “A Common Lisp jq replacement”Submitted How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love GC as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFun thing, I finished something quite similar in a week: https://git.sr.ht/~q3cpma/make-website ; down to the page language using the macro DSL of https://github.com/ruricolist/spinneret via runtime compilation of the (compile nil (lambda () ...)) kind. It's just HTML, other than that. Obviously very tailor-made for my website ( https://world-playground-deceit.net/ ) but I plan on improving that part once I'm fully…
Comment linking /
on “Zine: A Static Site Generator Written in Zig”Submitted High quality image resizing: ImageMagick vs. libplacebo as a story · 1 points
HN discussionUsually more about the technology behind it than about the site itself. eg: I consider this a colophon https://world-playground-deceit.net/about/website.html ...and this recent link through n.y.c came through when I searched as having a "Colophon" for the project: https://ratfactor.com/snobol/ ...the wiki link talks a little bit about "website colophons" as well.
Comment linking /about/website.html
on “Font Activations: A Note on the Type”Submitted A peek at POSIX sh's future goodies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionGC's strength is not only in the ease of writing but at also reading, since you don't need to interleave allocation and business logic everywhere (be it through types or imperative code). GC simply is the only way to approach the clarity of pseudo-code in real code. That's one of my later realizations concerning the subject ( https://world-playground-deceit.net/blog/2024/11/how-i-learn... )
Comment linking /blog/2024/11/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-gc.html
on “The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (2nd Ed)”Submitted X11 Record and Replay as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis, I have mine at https://world-playground-deceit.net/ but I don't want to put my real name that visibly on it (a resourceful stalker could get it though).
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Show HN: My ad-hoc bubblewrap wrapper as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI meant "general" with regards to the material, not the listener. I have myself digitized a few rare cases like Celtic Frost's Monotheist because the CD was horrid and I know pop and rock suffered much more from the phenomenon, but unless the music was released first as a vinyl then got later butchered on CD (so before '85~88), it's very rare to have a situation where the vinyl is objectively better. One such case I…
Comment linking /blog/2025/11/music-review-joy-division-unknown-pleasures-1979-.html
on “CD Sales Growth Outpaced Vinyl in the First Half of 2026”I think it's appropriate to link to my blog post about building such a NAS but with very different technologies: dm-integrity, mdadm and XFS. The reason being that as a C/C++ dev following OpenZFS development closely, I found the focus on ginormous features over general stability and the constant problems due to the SPL/separate page cache too worrying. Sure, I traded the convenience of kitchen sink (or Swiss army k…
Comment linking /blog/2025/06/nas-setup-logbook.html
on “How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS”I just learned of this by looking at the ssh break & enter attempts on my brand new VPS and Googling the peculiar usernames being used ( https://world-playground-deceit.net/blog/2026/05/a-bored-loo... will amend the article to mention it).
Comment linking /blog/2026/05/a-bored-look-at-my-sshd-authlog.html
on “TrapDoor Crypto Stealer Supply Chain Across NPM, PyPI, and Crates.io”
