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Drew Silcock
Personal blog · drew.silcock.dev/blogprogrammingsystemsweb
Drew Silcock writes Drew's Dev Blog, a personal blog at drew.silcock.dev about programming, systems and web. Since 2024, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “How Postgres stores oversized values – let's raise a TOAST”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this blog for its RSS feed and for posts on how Postgres stores data on disk and on speeding up Ruby by rewriting C in Ruby. The comments do not judge the writing itself.
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.
I like computers (most of the time) and write long-form deep dives about them (sometimes).
Most-linked posts?
- How Postgres stores oversized values – let's raise a TOAST2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-22
- /rss.xml2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-05
What Hacker News says?
Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it :-) I've added the RSS feed to my home page now, as the other poster noted the URL is https://drew.silcock.dev/rss.xml .
Comment linking /rss.xml
on “How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner”Submitted How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner as a story · 556 points
HN discussionFound it: https://drew.silcock.dev/rss.xml
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on “How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner”Submitted Everything you need to know about Python 3.13 – JIT and GIL went up the hill as a story · 397 points
HN discussionThe article refers to upcoming versions of Ruby. For the curious, looks[1] like ruby 3.4.0 will be released this Christmas, and ruby 3.5.0 next Christmas. Also, I'm wondering what effect Python's minimal JIT [2] has coming for this type of loop. Python 3.13 needs to be built with the JIT enabled, so it would be interesting if someone who has built it runs the benchmarks. [1] https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/re…
Comment linking /blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-python-3-13/
on “Speeding up Ruby by rewriting C in Ruby”Submitted Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories as a story · 266 points
HN discussionhttps://drew.silcock.dev
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Is this the new cyber normal? as a story · 212 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hunting a production-only proxy bug in SvelteKit as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Postgres stores oversized values – let's raise a TOAST as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postgres stores oversized values – let's raise a TOAST as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
