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Dan Peterson

Personal blog · danp.net/posts · on HN as danp128programming

Dan Peterson's personal blog at danp.net covers programming. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Coming in Go 1.24: testing/synctest experiment for time and concurrency testing”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-27, and you can follow it by feed.

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6mentions?
6HN people?
2022–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2024

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Dan Peterson's posts on speeding up Go CI by replacing actions/setup-go with caching changes, and on the macOS DNS resolver change in Go 1.20. Commenters discuss the CI work with the author.

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.

The author on HN?

danp128 · 46 karma · member since 2009

https://danp.net | https://github.com/danp

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Coming in Go 1.24: testing/synctest experiment for time and concurrency testing
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-12-08
  2. macOS DNS resolving change in Go 1.20
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. bewuethr · 2026-09-18
    We recently did similar work for our pipelines, heavily based on Better GitHub Actions caching for Go [0]. Were you aware of that article, or did you (re-)discover things like the cache trimming? What's the best way to contribute? I'd like to expose the "go-version-file" input for the setup-go action instead of setting a Go version directly. Open an issue in the repo? Also, have you considered this potential optimiz…

    Comment linking /posts/github-actions-go-cache/

    on “Scaling Golang CI by Replacing actions/setup-go”
  2. todsacerdoti · 2022-11-11

    Submitted macOS DNS resolving change in Go 1.20 as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. ellisd · 2023-02-01
    Been looking forward to the macOS DNS resolver changes for a LONG TIME... https://danp.net/posts/macos-dns-change-in-go-1-20/

    Comment linking /posts/macos-dns-change-in-go-1-20/

    on “Go 1.20 released”
  4. awk · 2024-12-15

    Submitted Coming in Go 1.24: testing/synctest experiment for time and concurrency testing as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. danp128 · 2024-12-08

    Submitted Coming in Go 1.24: testing/synctest experiment for time and concurrency testing as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. marcopolo · 2025-02-11

    Submitted Go 1.24: testing/synctest experiment for time and concurrency testing as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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