Victor Foley
vfoley.xyz · Personal blog · on HN since 2018
Victor Foley, a programmer, writes about coding fonts, Rust compile times, GNU Parallel, the Hare language and sensible use of computer resources.
What HN saysHN commenters cite his Hare post as describing the modern C niche, and link his posts on coding fonts and avoiding the word "just".
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Most-shared posts
- 1Making Reasonable Use of Computer Resources4 people · 112 points · first shared 2021 · 30 comments on HN
- 2Lesser Known Coding Fonts3 people · 642 points · first shared 2019 · 246 comments on HN
- 3My Impressions of Hare3 people · 73 points · first shared 2024 · 18 comments on HN
- 4How to alleviate the pain of Rust compile times3 people · 9 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 5Making Reasonable Use of Computer Resources: Part 22 people · 19 points · first shared 2021 · 5 comments on HN
- 6Simple Usage of GNU Parallel2 people · 3 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
- 7Just2 people · first shared 2022
- 8Functional Queues1 people · 30 points · first shared 2022 · 2 comments on HN
- 9A skill programmers lack: practice1 people · 1 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 10Purp3.png1 people · first shared 2020
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austin-schick · 2026-06-30
I think this blog post has a great description of the "Modern C" niche Zig fills: https://vfoley.xyz/hare/. I tend to think of Zig in this way. If you found yourself reaching for C, you could instead reach for Zig. You'd get optionals instead of null pointers, comptime instead of macros, a real facility for handling errors, etc. It's like C but with some of the sharp edges sanded off.
baruchel · 2023-06-13
I have used Apl385 during a long time as my daily monospace font. It shares some features with such font (probably why I don't use it any longer!)
https://vfoley.xyz/lesser-known-coding-fonts/
asicsp · 2023-01-06
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12943150 (165 points | Nov 13, 2016 | 65 comments)
See also: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&q… one of which was https://vfoley.xyz/parallel/ (Simple usage of GNU parallel)
gnuvince · 2022-11-08
A few months ago, I wrote a blog post[1] about the word "just" that echoes the thesis of Tim's article: avoid using the word "just" if you can, it's reductive.
[1] https://vfoley.xyz/just/
genidoi · 2025-06-23
It often does[0].
[0] https://vfoley.xyz/just/