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dbeck blog
Personal blog · dbeck.github.ioprogrammingsystems
dbeck blog is a personal blog at dbeck.github.io about programming and systems. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Gossip communication library for Elixir”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts cover Rust error messages and lessons learnt from choosing ZeroMQ. Commenters link them while discussing Go and Rust, and to note that Cap'n Proto may be faster than Protobuf.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Gossip communication library for Elixir2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-01
- Experimenting with Rust generics and dynamic traits2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-29
What Hacker News says?
> The author clearly hasn't worked with Rust. The author links to a previous post on the subject, from mid-2015, so they clearly have at least tried Rust in the past. And while many Rust messages are OK, one should be careful not to confuse familiarity with Rust's error messages[0] with Rust's error messages being good (being inherently informative and good). Here's a clearer example (fixed since): http://dbeck.gith…
Comment linking /My-First-Steps-In-Rust/
on “I Love Go; I Hate Go”Submitted Rust Actor Library: First Assorted Thoughts as a story · 95 points
HN discussionPerformance might be one reason to use Cap'n Proto over Protobuf. http://dbeck.github.io/5-lessons-learnt-from-choosing-zeromq...
Comment linking /5-lessons-learnt-from-choosing-zeromq-and-protobuf/
on “The Sandstorm Team Is Joining Cloudflare”Submitted Experimenting with Rust generics and dynamic traits as a story · 67 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust: learning how to share a queue between threads as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gossip communication library for Elixir as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning Rust: Closures (through a Naive Circular Buffer) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Experimenting with Rust iterator for a circular buffer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted 5 people to listen to about software performance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Yet another lock-free SPSC queue in Rust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted UDP Multicast in Elixir as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Utilizing UDP multicast for gossip as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted GroupManager in Scalesmall now has Encryption support as a story · 1 points
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