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Blindly Coding
Personal blog · ahicks.io/postsprogramming
Blindly Coding is a personal blog at ahicks.io about programming. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a post on deserializing binary data files in Rust. Other mentions are hiring-thread posts that link the author's résumé and a Rust compiler pull request he worked on.
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.
3D audio, C++, digital signal processing, and other assorted topics.
Most-linked posts?
- /posts/April%202017/rust-struct-field-reordering/2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-07-06
What Hacker News says?
I'm the blind dev who refactored a huge chunk of the Rust compiler [0]. I'm at roughly 800 words a minute with a synth, with the proven ability to top out at 1219. 800 or so is the norm among programmers. In order to get it we normally end up using older synths which sound way less natural because modern synthesis techniques can't go that fast. There's a trade-off between natural sounding and 500+ words a minute, an…
Comment linking /posts/April%202017/rust-struct-field-reordering/
on “Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second”Location: Seattle Remote: Strongly preferred Willing to relocate: Not right now Programming languages: Python, Rust, C++, some JavaScript and Go Technologies: Most of Google Cloud platform, Kubernetes, SQL (Postgres, BigQuery), RabbitMQ, PgBouncer, the Django/Celery stack, enough bash to be dangerous, CMake, Appveyor and Travis CI, some Windows COM. Résumé/CV: https://ahicks.io/files/resume.pdf Email: ahicks@ahicks.…
Comment linking /posts/April%202017/rust-struct-field-reordering/
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2019)”Location: Seattle Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Rust, C/C++, Python, SQL, Kubernetes, many others Résumé/CV: https://ahicks.io/files/resume.pdf Email: ahicks@ahicks.io My first resume-worthy project was working with Mozilla on the Rust compiler for 6 months [0], implementing the ability to reorder fields in structs to eliminate padding. My work here was primarily a cleanup project which also unbl…
Comment linking /posts/April%202017/rust-struct-field-reordering/
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024)”Location: Seattle Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Rust, C/C++, Python, SQL, Kubernetes, many others Résumé/CV: https://ahicks.io/files/resume.pdf Email: ahicks@ahicks.io My first resume-worthy project was working with Mozilla on the Rust compiler for 6 months [0], implementing the ability to reorder fields in structs to eliminate padding. My work here was primarily a cleanup project which also unbl…
Comment linking /posts/April%202017/rust-struct-field-reordering/
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024)”Location: Seattle Remote: Strongly preferred Willing to relocate: Not right now Programming languages: Python, Rust, C++, some JavaScript and Go Technologies: Most of Google Cloud platform, Kubernetes, SQL (Postgres, BigQuery), RabbitMQ, PgBouncer, the Django/Celery stack, enough bash to be dangerous, CMake, Appveyor and Travis CI, some Windows COM. Résumé/CV: https://ahicks.io/files/resume.pdf Email: ahicks@ahicks.…
Comment linking /posts/April%202017/rust-struct-field-reordering/
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2019)”Implemented in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/37429 ; his website seems to be https://ahicks.io/
Comment linking /
on “Deserializing Binary Data Files in Rust”