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brokenco.de
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brokenco.de is a personal blog at brokenco.de about programming and systems. Since 2018, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts cover faster Rust linking with lld and async programming with Ada. Comments cite them as supporting evidence or older reading, without judging the writing.
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.
a moderately technical blog
What Hacker News says?
lld seems to reduce rust linking time significantly: * 2x for linking rustc: https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2020/04/24/how-to-speed... * 3x here: https://brokenco.de/2020/01/08/faster-rust-linking.html * 2x faster than gold according to this: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/71515
Comment linking /2020/01/08/faster-rust-linking.html
on “Zig's New Relationship with LLVM”Submitted The 5 Stages of YAML as a story · 54 points
HN discussionIt has been a while, but you may want to look at: - https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Libraries/GNAT... (search for "C select()") - https://www.codelabs.ch/anet/ - https://github.com/samueltardieu/adasockets - https://github.com/rtyler/ada-playground/blob/master/epollec... Some old reading: https://brokenco.de/2013/04/07/async-with-ada.html You may want to check how GNAT.Sockets and Anet are implemented,…
Comment linking /2013/04/07/async-with-ada.html
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