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Billy Messenger
Personal blog · billydm.github.io/blogprogrammingsystems
Billy Messenger's personal blog at billydm.github.io covers programming and systems. Since 2023, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Clarifying Some Things (DAW Front End Development Struggles Cont.)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-12-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a discussion of front-end development for digital audio workstations. A commenter summarises its argument that web-based UIs are slow and memory-heavy, especially outside a browser.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Clarifying Some Things (DAW Front End Development Struggles Cont.)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-16
- Digital Audio Workstation Front End Development Struggles2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-12
What Hacker News says?
The writer of the blogpost here. The popularity of this post has really caught me at an awkward time. I want to clarify some things: https://billydm.github.io/blog/clarifying-some-things/
Comment linking /blog/clarifying-some-things/
on “Digital Audio Workstation Front End Development Struggles”Submitted Rust vs. C++ as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> for building a UI I would actually personally choose something JavaScript-based The author does address this at [0]. Their main arguments are that web-based stuff is slow and requires lots of memory, especially when making something which runs outside a web browser. [0] https://billydm.github.io/blog/daw-frontend-development-stru...
Comment linking /blog/daw-frontend-development-struggles/
on “Digital Audio Workstation Front End Development Struggles”Submitted Rust vs. C++ (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clarifying Some Things (DAW Front End Development Struggles Cont.) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Digital Audio Workstation Front End Development Struggles as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted DAW Front End Development Struggles as a story · 1 points
HN discussion