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Carl Mastrangelo
Personal blog · carlmastrangelo.com/blogprogrammingsystems
Carl Mastrangelo writes Carl's Blog, a personal blog at carlmastrangelo.com about programming and systems. Since 2013, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Let's Make a Varint”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked posts cover why gRPC insists on a particular transport behaviour, cited as context for a Chromium discussion, and one author's account of trying to become more extroverted. Comments only cite them.
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?
- Let's Make a Varint2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-06
- Why does gRPC insist on trailers?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-07
What Hacker News says?
I think this blog post provides the context for that chromium discussion: https://carlmastrangelo.com/blog/why-does-grpc-insist-on-tra... (Somewhere in the middle of the article)
Comment linking /blog/why-does-grpc-insist-on-trailers
on “gRPC: The Bad Parts”Submitted Why does gRPC insist on trailers? as a story · 324 points
HN discussionI went through the motions of making the transform, and am still in the process. I wrote about my experience: https://carlmastrangelo.com/blog/become-an-extrovert
Comment linking /blog/become-an-extrovert
on “Ask HN: Has anyone been able to transform their personality?”Submitted Java’s Mysterious Interrupt as a story · 125 points
HN discussionSubmitted No Space Left on Device as a story · 66 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gamma Steganography as a story · 60 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let's Make a Varint as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Impossible Java 11 as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted The End of Ads as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted JSON for Lunch as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted InterpreterPoolExecutor – We Need PEP 734 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Health Checking Best Practices as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Non-Solutions to HTTP/1.1 Problems as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let’s Make a Varint as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shown HN: Measure / Improve Your Response Time as a story · 1 points
HN discussion