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Gerald on IT
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Gerald on IT is a personal blog at geraldonit.com about programming and data. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Gerald on IT for its 1BRC Go solutions post and a 2017 guide to making small Docker images. The comments cite these posts as sources and 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.
My opinions on IT and much more …
What Hacker News says?
I love the nerdery around 1BRC. My axe to grind is that unless you do dangerous stuff DBs are just as fast, less complicated, and more resilient to data updates than application code [0]. Do more in the database! 0: https://geraldonit.com/2024/01/31/1-billion-row-challenge-in...
Comment linking /2024/01/31/1-billion-row-challenge-in-sql-and-oracle-database/
on “The One Billion Row Challenge in Go: from 1m45s to 4s in nine solutions”Submitted How to build your own Thanksgiving shopping list app with JavaScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou can do this with experimental flags [0] and --squash [1] [2] [0] https://github.com/moby/buildkit/blob/master/frontend/docker... [1] https://geraldonit.com/2017/11/13/how-to-create-small-docker... [2] https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/image_b...
Comment linking /2017/11/13/how-to-create-small-docker-images/
on “Show HN: Nginx Image with HTTP/3 (QUIC), TLS1.3 with 0-RTT, Brotli”