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Caolan McMahon

Personal blog · caolan.uk/articlesprogrammingweb

Caolan McMahon writes Caolan, a personal blog at caolan.uk about programming and web. Since 2020, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “A Speed Limit for Computers”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-02, and you can follow it by feed.

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17mentions?
16HN people?
2020–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2026

Most-linked posts?

  1. A Speed Limit for Computers
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-07-06
  2. Servers with Personality
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-10-14
  3. Serving Markdown Direct from Apache
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-29
  4. Google's proposal to split the JavaScript standard
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-16
  5. A Collaborative Text Editor
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-22

What Hacker News says?

  1. type0 · 2022-05-29

    Submitted Serving Markdown Direct from Apache as a story · 34 points

    HN discussion
  2. todsacerdoti · 2025-08-04

    Submitted Complex Iterators Are Slow as a story · 24 points

    HN discussion
  3. ksbrooksjr · 2024-10-16

    Submitted Google's proposal to split the JavaScript standard as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  4. ibobev · 2025-10-14

    Submitted Servers with Personality as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. prescojan · 2020-03-04

    Submitted Time Disorder: Don't order events by timestamp as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. zdw · 2026-07-12

    Submitted A Speed Limit for Computers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. birdculture · 2026-07-06

    Submitted A Speed Limit for Computers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. fanf2 · 2026-05-03

    Submitted Servers with Personality as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. MindGods · 2020-07-25

    Submitted Inside a Collaborative Text Editor as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. pcr910303 · 2020-07-22

    Submitted A Collaborative Text Editor as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. speckx · 2026-07-29

    Submitted The Story of DOM Patch as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. signa11 · 2026-07-07

    Submitted A Speed Limit for Computers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. wrxd · 2026-05-02

    Submitted Servers with Personality as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. thunderbong · 2024-10-18

    Submitted JS0/JSSugar: the tooling will continue until morale improves as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. anserin · 2024-08-11

    Submitted Show HN: A simple markup language based on Gemtext as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. throwaway_08932 · 2024-03-11

    Submitted Serving Markdown Direct from Apache (2022) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. throwaway_08932 · 2024-03-11

    Submitted Redux and TypeScript: Improving on Recommended Patterns (2019) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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