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Stopa writes Stepan Parunashvili, a personal blog at stopa.io about career, programming and writing. Since 2019, 36 different Hacker News readers have linked it 152 times, most often “An Intuition for Lisp Syntax”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-07, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- An Intuition for Lisp Syntax12 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2020-10-25
- Web Applications from the Future: A Database in the Browser6 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2021-04-29
- iPhone dumbphone6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2025-09-07
- What Gödel Discovered5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-11-16
- Advice on Starting Out3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-07-26
- Experiments with “AI” and Diet Logging3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-10-23
- Crafting Functions2 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2020-09-10
- Inventing Monads2 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2020-08-12
- Simulating RAM in Clojure2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-10-12
- The Hacker Way: How I taught my nephew to program2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-08-04
What Hacker News says?
Some good programming/mathematical logic content here: https://stopa.io/ Russ Cox of Go: https://research.swtch.com/
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted What Gödel Discovered as a story · 1000 points
HN discussionCurious, did you really find that microservices helped? The downsides can be so tremendous -- I wonder if nubank would have done better to services in the low digit range. (context: my thoughts on it -> https://stopa.io/post/236 )
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on “Nubank acquires Cognitect”Submitted iPhone dumbphone as a story · 695 points
HN discussionI followed the instructions here to cripple my phone using Apple Configurator: https://stopa.io/post/297 Now the browser doesn't work and I can't install new apps. I also turn on "Do Not Disturb" almost all the time, which allows through notifications from exactly 3 people.
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on “Smartphones and being present”Submitted An Intuition for Lisp Syntax as a story · 551 points
HN discussionRelevant blog post for a slightly older kid: https://stopa.io/post/246
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on “Ask HN: Please share your experience teaching your kids to program”Submitted Show HN: Risp – Lisp in Rust as a story · 314 points
HN discussioniPhone dumbphone https://stopa.io/post/297
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on “From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens adjusting to the smartphone ban”Submitted The Hacker Way: How I taught my nephew to program as a story · 260 points
HN discussionIt reminds me of this [0] post from a few months back which implements something more or less similar using js arrays as a kind of sexp. I’m working with a system that relies extensively on logic implemented as json structures. We’re not using this lib, I found it to be difficult to follow and more difficult to debug. Ymmv, but I’d definitely think hard before leaning on something like this. [0] https://stopa.io/pos…
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on “JsonLogic”Submitted Web Applications from the Future: A Database in the Browser as a story · 184 points
HN discussionI posted this in another thread, but it seems relevant to what you are looking for: https://stopa.io/post/265 It walks through the process of building a Lisp in JSON and the associated parser in JavaScript. It could be a good starting point to build out a cross-platform approach to sending logic over the wire.
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on “JsonLogic”Submitted A Graph-Based Firebase as a story · 177 points
HN discussionHere’s some great instructions on how to use JSON to do just that: https://stopa.io/post/265
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on “JsonLogic”Submitted An Intuition for Lisp Syntax (2020) as a story · 175 points
HN discussionHmmm ... I thought a lot about this ie. whether to include the HN link. Problem is ... when I write the newsletter, most HN links are empty or only have one or two comments. Later on, the story reaches the front page on HN but it's a new HN link. So if I include the 'original' HN link, it's not useful to the reader, and may even mislead them into thinking there was insignificant HN discussion. For example, I linked…
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on “Tell HN: I curate HN stories which didn't reach the front page”Submitted What Artists Notice as a story · 166 points
HN discussionHere is the list of blogs on my rss feed. I have found most of them from front page on HN. https://stopa.io/feed.rss https://kliu.io/index.xml https://waitbutwhy.com/feed https://rsshub.app/blogs/paulgraham https://danluu.com/atom.xml https://lethain.com/feeds/ https://programmingisterrible.com/rss http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/index.xml http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/atom.xml https://www.benkuhn.net/index.xml http…
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on “Ask HN: Favourite blogs?”Submitted Simulating Machines in Clojure as a story · 161 points
HN discussionYou can have that. Here is a guide showing how to do it on an iOS device https://stopa.io/post/297 I think something similar exists for Android but you'll need to do some research. iOS also has another way to dumb down the phone by limiting which apps are available: https://www.tomsguide.com/phones/apple-buried-a-perfect-dumb...
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on “I'm tired of being on the network”Submitted Lisp Macros by Example as a story · 161 points
HN discussionThere was an article not long ago about using Apple Configurator to dumb down an iphone : https://stopa.io/post/297 Maybe this could be handy.
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on “Show HN: Oh Yah – Routine management app I built for my sons”Submitted Bel in Clojure (2022) as a story · 139 points
HN discussionThere was this thread a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25115746 (direct link: https://stopa.io/post/269 ) As someone with limited math knowledge, I found it quite readable and understandable though I can't vouch for its accuracy. I would say, though, when talking about Godel, there is significant disagreement over what his work implies about the world or about the status of truth statements (if any…
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on “‘Journey to the Edge of Reason’ Review: Gödel’s Beautiful Mind”Submitted Simulating RAM in Clojure as a story · 136 points
HN discussionI've found this essay to be a good shortcut to Lisp "enlightenment" without having to put in the effort of actually learning/using Lisp: https://stopa.io/post/265
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on “Ask HN: What Is the Lisp “Enlightment”?”Submitted An Intuition for Lisp Syntax as a story · 130 points
HN discussionThis was the best most intuitive explanation of lisp syntax and why's it's natural and so powerful https://stopa.io/post/265
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on “On Lisp (1993)”Submitted Inventing Monads as a story · 128 points
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