Handmade: A Community for Self-Rolled Performant Software (2016)
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HN comment orderThe handmade hero community is wonderful. It is a portal to a lot of knowledge transfer. If you're looking to approach C/C++ in a welcoming environment and/or love getting closer to the metal, I highly recommend the community. I also recommend the handmade video series. Casey Muratori has been live streaming himself build the same game for the past few years. He try's to build everything from scratch, which is entertaining and quite the brain dump. Also, the video archive…
I of course agree that a focus on high level abstraction with little knowledge of the underlying layers is a very problematic approach to programming. But I see the problem as something very different. To me the issue are two destructive thoughts patterns, in both developers and users. Developers believe that just because they can make something it deserves to exist. Users believe that just because it exists they are supposed to use it. I believe there is no better…
I really like the idea of a project oriented community with fishbowls and jams, and the focus on efficiency. I wonder if there's any similar communities focused on more typical modern dev practices? It seems like the interesting tech communities are often hacker ethos focused.
it sounds identical to http://suckless.org/philosophy/
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 248
- Total comments
- 178
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-04-22 | Handmade Manifesto | kiyanwang | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-08-17 | Handmade: A Community for Self-Rolled Performant Software (2016)First breakout · Best thread | TheUndead96 | 177 | 88 |
| 2021-12-08 | Handmade Manifesto | ibobev | 1 | 0 |
| 2022-10-24 | Handmade Manifesto | pabs3 | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-01-30 | New Handmade Manifesto | CaptainFever | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-05-26 | Handmade Manifesto | 727564797069706 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024-08-04 | Computers are amazing. So why is software so terrible?Latest 20+ point return | Bluestein | 59 | 88 |
| 2025-12-07 | Handmade Manifesto | kristianp | 5 | 1 |