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Dusted Codes
Personal blog · dusted.codes · on HN as dustedcodesprogrammingcareer
Dusted Codes is a personal blog at dusted.codes about programming and career. Since 2016, 31 different Hacker News readers have linked it 80 times, most often “How fast is ASP.NET Core?”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its critiques of .NET and ASP.NET Core benchmarks, including how framework benchmarks skip the framework. It also covers Microsoft's open-source trust, type systems, and password hashing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dusted Codes
Most-linked posts?
- How fast is ASP.NET Core?8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2022-11-14
- The type system is a programmer's best friend5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2022-11-01
- Can we trust Microsoft with open source?4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-10-23
- .NET Basics3 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2021-05-24
- .NET for Beginners (2020)3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-07-22
- Equal Pay for Equal Work2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-01-03
- Functional ASP.NET Core using F#2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-02-07
- Death of a QA in Scrum2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-04-08
- Announcing Giraffe 1.0.0 (Functional .Net Core Web Framework)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-02-09
- Why you should learn F#2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-12-18
What Hacker News says?
The c# benchmarks where they didn't use the framework to do any of the actual templating? those hardcoded byte arrays are how everyone does templating everywhere right? or are you talking about after they changed back their "platform" test to not do that and is substantially slower than go https://dusted.codes/how-fast-is-really-aspnet-core
Comment linking /how-fast-is-really-aspnet-core
on “A 10x Faster TypeScript”Submitted Can we trust Microsoft with open source? as a story · 442 points
HN discussion> So far, I like .NET. I do wish Microsoft had explained, just explained in simple text, just what the heck .NET CORE was. By now I've come to a guess that .NET CORE is irrelevant to me and I should f'get about it -- would have been nice to have had some EXPLANATION. I would say that .NET Core is certainly relevant to you and shouldn’t be ignored. As for a simple explanation, another user on this site wrote this whi…
Comment linking /dotnet-basics
on “Windows needs a change in priorities”Submitted Why you should learn F# as a story · 272 points
HN discussionHello, Apart from my family and some minor health issues, I currently am focused on 2 things: learning Luxembourgish/Luxembourgian and develop a deep understanding of functional programming. About the former one: that should help me find a job in some Luxembourgish administration (I really wish I'll be able to find one soon).Luxembourg might be a small country, but I think it's managed well, CTIE (Luxembourgish admi…
Comment linking /the-type-system-is-a-programmers-best-friend
on “Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment”Submitted The type system is a programmer's best friend as a story · 242 points
HN discussion.NET is a difficult platform for people to learn programming, that's probably why. I've sum'd up everything that I think make it quite hard for programming beginners in the article below: https://dusted.codes/dotnet-for-beginners
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on “.NET 6 Released”Submitted .NET for Beginners (2020) as a story · 196 points
HN discussion> Microsoft branding is terrible. Agreed. > I never fully figured out how .NET, .NET Core, ASP.NET, .NET Framework, .NET MAUI and the kitchen sink relate to each other. You're not the only one who is massively confused about everything that is labelled .NET or Core. If anyone else is struggling, I recommend this (I wrote it): https://dusted.codes/dotnet-basics
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on “.NET 6 Released”Submitted How fast is ASP.NET Core? as a story · 90 points
HN discussionThat’s the only right way. Talent is still scarce, even remote. There is not nearly enough good developers out there to fill all the demand. Employers who try to tell you differently in order to cut pay for going remote cheat you out of the salary which a good dev deserves. I’ve explained it in great detail here: https://dusted.codes/equal-pay-for-equal-work
Comment linking /equal-pay-for-equal-work
on “Spotify is letting employees work from anywhere while paying SF and NY salaries”Submitted Tips and Tricks for Asp.net Core Applications as a story · 89 points
HN discussionIf you find that an employer tries to pay you less after moving to Europe then perhaps you can find some good negotiation points/advice in an article I wrote recently: https://dusted.codes/equal-pay-for-equal-work
Comment linking /equal-pay-for-equal-work
on “Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe?”Submitted Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source? (2021) as a story · 86 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 Fund OSS through package managers as a story · 42 points
HN discussionself plug: https://dusted.codes
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on “Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers”Submitted Equal Pay for Equal Work as a story · 37 points
HN discussionThere's nothing unlikely with such scenario. See MD5, SHA1 and so on. See current research on SHA256 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2#Cryptanalysis_and_valida... https://dusted.codes/sha-256-is-not-a-secure-password-hashin... https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/34256/sha256-se...
Comment linking /sha-256-is-not-a-secure-password-hashing-algorithm
on “BitTorrent v2 (2020)”Submitted How fast is ASP.NET Core? as a story · 12 points
HN discussion> There's a world of developers out there who appreciate what you do. Couldn't agree more: https://dusted.codes/thank-you-microsoft-for-being-awesome
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on “Happy 15th Birthday .NET”Submitted Announcing Giraffe 1.0.0 (Functional .Net Core Web Framework) as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI am extremely impressed by Microsoft. I think Microsoft has proven the world that nothing is impossible. Once a hip tech company at the beginning of the computer era, then transitioned into an old, boring and outdated corp has now turned into one of the healthiest, most innovative, brave and genuinely nicest tech giants of our time again. What Microsoft has done and achieved in recent years is astonishing. They pla…
Comment linking /thank-you-microsoft-for-being-awesome
on “Open Source .NET three years later”Submitted .NET for Beginners as a story · 9 points
HN discussion- http://dusted.codes/can-we-trust-microsoft-with-open-source - http://theverge.com/2021/10/22/22740701/microsoft-dotnet-hot... - https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/505 Organisational design defect - the .NET language is open-source and wants to be available on all platforms, on all devices and fundamentally an open programming language (ie all editors). The problem is the .NET SDK team is paid by the Visual Stud…
Comment linking /can-we-trust-microsoft-with-open-source
on “Microsoft .NET Devs Anonymously Responds to Microsoft .NET Leadership”Submitted .NET Basics as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThere's a new F# project out there to utilize ASP.NET Core, which has got Kestrel under the hood. I just discovered it and have yet to do any performance testing, but I'd imagine it's pretty in-line with C# results. https://dusted.codes/functional-aspnet-core
Comment linking /functional-aspnet-core
on “Getting Started with Functional Programming in F#”Submitted How fast is ASP.NET Core? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionIronically I believe GitHub should play a bigger part in OSS. They and a few other platforms have a unique position which could help to make open source software more sustainable: https://dusted.codes/fund-oss-through-package-managers
Comment linking /fund-oss-through-package-managers
on “Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same”Submitted Open Source Documentation as a story · 6 points
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