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Curly Tail, Curly Braces

Personal blog · worthe-it.co.za/blog · on HN as jwortheprogrammingsystems

Curly Tail, Curly Braces is a personal blog at worthe-it.co.za about programming and systems. Since 2017, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “The Newtype Pattern in Rust”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-04, and you can follow it by feed.

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23mentions?
7HN people?
2017–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2023

The author on HN?

jworthe · 187 karma · member since 2017

South African software engineer, writing Rust whenever I can find an excuse to. Check https://www.worthe-it.co.za for more about me and what I'm doing.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. The Newtype Pattern in Rust
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-07
  2. Leveling Up Your Git Server – Sharing Repos with a Friend
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-02
  3. Using Git for Incremental Backups
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted A Quick Introduction to Graphviz as a story · 249 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted Error Reporting from Your Systemd Automation as a story · 22 points

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  3. Submitted The Newtype Pattern in Rust as a story · 6 points

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  4. Submitted Saying Goodbye to My Git Server's CGit Front End as a story · 3 points

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  5. Submitted A Quick Introduction to Graphviz (2017) as a story · 3 points

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  6. Submitted The Newtype Pattern in Rust as a story · 3 points

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  7. Submitted Compile-time feature flags in Rust as a story · 3 points

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  8. Submitted Multi-Platform Rust and Emscripten-Specific Functions as a story · 3 points

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  9. Submitted My Exobrain as a story · 2 points

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  10. Submitted How to Train Your Git Server as a story · 2 points

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  11. Submitted Using Git for Incremental Backups as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted Why functional programmers should care about Rust as a story · 2 points

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  13. Submitted The Localhost Podcast CLI Tool as a story · 1 points

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  14. Submitted Make the Computer Do It as a story · 1 points

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  15. Submitted Building a digital music collection in 2023 as a story · 1 points

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  16. Submitted Using Git for Incremental Backups (2017) as a story · 1 points

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  17. Submitted Leveling Up Your Git Server – Sharing Repos with a Friend as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Leveling Up Your Git Server: Sharing Repos with a Friend as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted I was saved by Test Driven Development as a story · 1 points

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  20. Submitted Software Engineering Is Engineering as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted Coding for the Win – How I Built a Tower Defence Bot as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted FUN: JMP FUN; Learning about Assembly with Games as a story · 1 points

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  23. Submitted The Fundamentals of Version Control as a story · 1 points

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