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Dickson Tan
Personal blog · neurrone.com/postsprogrammingsystems
Dickson Tan's personal blog at neurrone.com covers programming and systems. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “The Metaslab Corruption Bug in OpenZFS”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked posts cover software development at high speech rates using text-to-speech, and ZFS scrubs and data integrity. Comments only note an added TTS voices section and discuss ZFS scrubbing, without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Musings on technology, books and coffee
Most-linked posts?
- The Metaslab Corruption Bug in OpenZFS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-29
What Hacker News says?
I've added a section about TTS voices to the post, see https://neurrone.com/posts/software-development-at-800-wpm/#...
Comment linking /posts/software-development-at-800-wpm/
on “Software Development at 800 Words per Minute”Submitted Software Development at 800 Words per Minute as a story · 174 points
HN discussionI've added a section about TTS voices to the post, see https://neurrone.com/posts/software-development-at-800-wpm/#...
Comment linking /posts/software-development-at-800-wpm/
on “Software Development at 800 Words per Minute”Submitted The Metaslab Corruption Bug in OpenZFS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've added a section about TTS voices to the post, see https://neurrone.com/posts/software-development-at-800-wpm/#...
Comment linking /posts/software-development-at-800-wpm/
on “Software Development at 800 Words per Minute”> Can you show us how an fsck would discover this bug but ZFS could never? I'd have to read closer to be certain, but if my understanding of it is correct, you'd have orphaned objects in the file system. The orphaned objects would be detectable, but would have correct hashes. Here's a better example of one where scrub clearly doesn't catch it, but fsck would (and zdb does). The metaslab structure could be checked in…
Comment linking /posts/openzfs-silent-metaslab-corruption/
on “Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity”