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Ben Garney
Personal blog · bengarney.comprogramminggamesai
Ben Garney's personal blog at bengarney.com covers programming, games and ai. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Writing a video chat application from the ground up, part 1”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-16, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Ben Garney's article series on building a video conferencing app from scratch, covering networking and a video codec, with test videos of faces. The comments only describe it; none judge the writing.
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Mobile, AR/VR, IoT, Backend, Game Tech
Most-linked posts?
- Writing a video chat application from the ground up, part 14 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-07-06
What Hacker News says?
https://bengarney.com Most notable is an article series I wrote about making your own video conferencing app from scratch, including networking + codec.
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Writing a video chat application from the ground up, part 1 as a story · 590 points
HN discussionAre you looking for this series of articles? The author makes his own video codec for a video chat app, and has a lot of test videos of faces. https://bengarney.com/2016/06/25/video-conference-part-1-the...
Comment linking /2016/06/25/video-conference-part-1-these-things-suck/
on “QOA, the Quite OK Audio Format”Submitted OnScreen: AI generated long form sci fi TV show as a story · 54 points
HN discussionSubmitted Roll your own video conference tool part 1 as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Video Conference Part 1: These Things Suck as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sequels: Hubris, Distraction, and Obsession as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Putting Money on the Screen as a story · 2 points
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