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Colin Breck
Personal blog · blog.colinbreck.comprogrammingcareersystems
Colin Breck's personal blog at blog.colinbreck.com covers programming, career and systems. Since 2018, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “When Impressive Performance Gains Do Not Matter”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Essays on software, engineering, people, and teams.
Most-linked posts?
- When Impressive Performance Gains Do Not Matter4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-06-29
- Find memory errors in unsafe Rust in production with GWP-ASan and the Scudo hard2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-08
- Techniques for Improving Your Technical Writing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-02-15
- Predicting the Future of Distributed Systems2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-26
- Administrivia: Reconsidering the Engineering and Management Tracks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-28
- I don't want to read what you didn't write2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-21
What Hacker News says?
Submitted I don't want to read what you didn't write as a story · 1070 points
HN discussionSubmitted Predicting the Future of Distributed Systems as a story · 173 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why am I excited about WebAssembly? as a story · 170 points
HN discussionSubmitted Predicting the future of distributed systems as a story · 70 points
HN discussionSubmitted Observations on Observability as a story · 57 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making unsafe Rust a little safer as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Impressive Performance Gains Do Not Matter as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Impressive Performance Gains Do Not Matter as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Administrivia: Reconsidering the Engineering and Management Tracks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted SARS-CoV-2 and the Future of Work as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Techniques for Improving Your Technical Writing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted From a Time-Series Database to a Key Operational Technology for the Enterprise as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Don't Want to Read What You Didn't Write as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adapting to AI: Leadership as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Impressive Performance Gains Do Not Matter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Impressive Performance Gains Do Not Matter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Operational Benefits of Databases Built on Object Storage as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Find memory errors in unsafe Rust in production with GWP-ASan and the Scudo hard as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Unsafe Rust a Little Safer: Find Memory Errors in Prod with GWP-ASan as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reconsidering the Engineering and Management Tracks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Be More Productive by Not Finishing Your Work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Calling Blocking Code: There Is No Free Lunch as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adapting to AI: Reflections on Productivity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is the Scientific Method Valuable in Engineering? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Interview Process That Works for Me as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Techniques for Improving Your Technical Writing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Akka Streams: A Motivating Example as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scala's Future.successful: Do Not Block Your Future Success as a story · 1 points
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