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Darrien's technical blog

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Darrien's technical blog is a personal blog at blog.darrien.dev about programming and systems. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Flicker free fireworks (or how I accidentally rediscovered the regen buffer)”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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7mentions?
5HN people?
2020–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2020

Documenting the technical stuff I do in my spare time

Most-linked posts?

  1. Flicker free fireworks (or how I accidentally rediscovered the regen buffer)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-25
  2. You Don't Know GIF
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-18

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted You Don't Know GIF – An analysis of a GIF file and some weird GIF features as a story · 226 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted You Don't Know GIF as a story · 6 points

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  3. Submitted You Don't Know GIF – An analysis of a GIF file and some weird GIF features as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted So you want to write object oriented Rust as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Flicker free fireworks (or how I accidentally rediscovered the regen buffer) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Fireworks for Your Terminal as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Flicker free fireworks (or how I accidentally rediscovered the regen buffer) as a story · 1 points

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