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David Vlijmincx
Personal blog · davidvlijmincx.com/postsprogrammingsystems
David Vlijmincx's personal blog at davidvlijmincx.com covers programming and systems. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Structured Concurrency in Java with Loom”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked from the 'Great Blogs by Programmers' HN thread. The only comment is a browser-console snippet for copying the thread's links, with no remarks on the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
David Vlijmincx — Java Performance & Concurrency Specialist, Oracle ACE, and International Speaker. Deep-dive engineering research and enterprise workshops on Virtual Threads, Project Panama (FFM API), Linux io_uring, and Modern Java.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-02-07
- Structured Concurrency in Java with Loom2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-07
What Hacker News says?
https://www.davidvlijmincx.com/ I write mostly about Java, testing and future additions to the language.
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Writing a simple Filesystem using Fuse and Java 17 (2021) as a story · 13 points
HN discussionEDIT: Paste this hacky snippet into your browser's console to save all of the links into your clipboard: (() => { let result = [...document.querySelectorAll('td a')] .map((link) => link && !link.href.includes('ycombinator') && !link.href.includes('javascript:void') ? link.href : '' ) .filter(Boolean); result = [...new Set(result)]; result.sort(); copy(result.join('\n\n')); })(); Just to help, here's a compiled-list…
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on “Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers”Submitted Creating Virtual Threads with Java's Project Loom as a story · 3 points
HN discussionShameless plug of my blog. It’s about new and upcoming features in Java and unit testing. https://www.davidvlijmincx.com/
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on “Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers”Submitted First time right, with software development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI did some similar testing a few days ago[1]. Comparing platform threads to virtual threads doing API calls. They mention the right conditions like having high task delays, but it also depends on what the task is. Threads.sleep(1) performs better on virtual threads than platform threads but a rest call taking a few ms performs worse. [1] https://davidvlijmincx.com/posts/virtual-thread-performance-...
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on “Java Virtual Threads: A Case Study”Submitted Virtual vs. Platform Threads for API Calls as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://www.davidvlijmincx.com/ I write mostly about concurrency and testing in Java for the last two years now. I do it in hope that it helps people and to connect with people who share the same passion :D
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted 12 steps to Better Tests as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Structured Concurrency in Java with Loom as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Structured Concurrency in Java with Loom as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Steps to Better Tests as a story · 1 points
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