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Xavier Riley

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Xavier Riley's personal blog at xavierriley.co.uk covers programming and culture. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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4HN people?
2014–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2014

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Why HN links it

Linked in a Sonic Pi thread as a collection of live-coding music talks and pieces, including live-coded sampling of bass guitar and some work beyond dance music.

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  1. I’ve got a few pieces here which aren’t all dance (e.g. live coded sampling of bass guitar) https://www.xavierriley.co.uk/talks/ @rbnpi has also done some lovey work with classical music that’s worth checking out

    Comment linking /talks/

    on “Sonic Pi – The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone”
  2. Submitted The Evils of Open Source as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Transcript of Edward Snowden’s Testimony to EU as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Neutron Accelerators and Drum Machines with Sonic Pi as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Writing a C extension for Ruby in 2016 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Writing a C extension for Ruby in 2016 as a story · 1 points

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