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Benoit Bernard

Personal blog · benbernardblog.comprogrammingcareer

Benoit Bernard's personal blog at benbernardblog.com covers programming and career. Since 2016, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “What I've Learned from 10 Years of Personal Projects”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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24mentions?
12HN people?
2016–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 11 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Only one comment, about lxml memory leaks in a web scraping tools thread. It does not discuss this blog's writing, so HN's view of the blog cannot be judged from it.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

My thoughts about programming, debugging and technology

Most-linked posts?

  1. What I've Learned from 10 Years of Personal Projects
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-03-16
  2. Tracking Down a Python Memory Leak (Part 2)
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-01-17
  3. The Tale of Creating a Distributed Web Crawler
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-09-13
  4. Automating the Stack Overflow Developer Survey
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-03
  5. I booked my cheapest one-month trip
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-30
  6. Web Scraping and Crawling Are Perfectly Legal, Right? (2017)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-04-19

What Hacker News says?

  1. nerdponx · 2017-11-14
    LXML also is known to have memory leaks [0][1], so be careful using it in any kind of automated system that will be parsing lots of small documents. I personally encountered this issue, and actually caused to abandon a project until months later when I found the references I linked above. It works nice and fast for one-off tasks, though. Also, a question: how often do you really encounter badly-formed markup in the…

    Comment linking /tracking-down-a-freaky-python-memory-leak-part-2/

    on “Ask HN: What are best tools for web scraping?”
  2. fagnerbrack · 2021-04-29

    Submitted I booked my cheapest one-month trip as a story · 239 points

    HN discussion
  3. heshiebee · 2019-07-30

    Submitted Web Scraping and Crawling Are Perfectly Legal, Right? (2017) as a story · 204 points

    HN discussion
  4. bbernard · 2016-12-07

    Submitted Tracking Down a Python Memory Leak as a story · 150 points

    HN discussion
  5. todsacerdoti · 2021-03-16

    Submitted What I've Learned from 10 Years of Personal Projects as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  6. kiyanwang · 2017-09-24

    Submitted The Tale of Creating a Distributed Web Crawler as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  7. allenleein · 2017-04-26

    Submitted Web Scraping and Crawling Are Perfectly Legal, Right? as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  8. todsacerdoti · 2021-05-04

    Submitted My Web Development Skills Went from Zero to One as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. todsacerdoti · 2021-08-10

    Submitted Tale of a Failed Startup, or the Day I Created a Mint Clone as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. mellosouls · 2021-04-29

    Submitted What I've Learned from 10 Years of Personal Projects as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. todsacerdoti · 2021-03-30

    Submitted I Booked My Cheapest One-Month Trip Ever as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. hutrdvnj · 2021-03-17

    Submitted What I've Learned from 10 Years of Personal Projects and Startups as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. fagnerbrack · 2017-10-14

    Submitted The Tale of Creating a Distributed Web Crawler as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. bbernard · 2017-09-13

    Submitted The Tale of Creating a Distributed Web Crawler as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. carlmungz · 2017-04-19

    Submitted Web Scraping and Crawling Are Perfectly Legal, Right? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. rbanffy · 2017-03-21

    Submitted The Case of the Mysterious Python Crash as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. bbernard · 2017-03-16

    Submitted The Case of the Mysterious Python Crash as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. quentinp · 2017-01-17

    Submitted Tracking Down a Python Memory Leak (Part 2) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. bbernard · 2016-10-12

    Submitted My Startling Encounter with Python Debuggers (Part 2) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. bbernard · 2016-09-20

    Submitted My Encounter with Python Debuggers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. fagnerbrack · 2018-11-18

    Submitted Automating the Stack Overflow Developer Survey as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. bbernard · 2018-10-03

    Submitted Automating the Stack Overflow Developer Survey as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. bbernard · 2017-02-15

    Submitted Using Uber's Pyflame and Logs to Tackle Scaling Issues as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. bbernard · 2017-01-18

    Submitted Tracking Down a Python Memory Leak (Part 2) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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