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Giacomo Cavalieri

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Giacomo Cavalieri's personal blog at giacomocavalieri.me covers programming and web. Since 2024, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Testing Can Be Fun, Actually”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-12, and you can follow it by feed.

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14mentions?
10HN people?
2024–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2026

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters only link his presentations page, which lists his talks. The comments say nothing about the quality of his writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Italy-based developer, Gleam core team member, and functional programming enthusiast

Most-linked posts?

  1. Testing Can Be Fun, Actually
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-06
  2. Effortless animations with CSS view transitions
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-07
  3. What if best practices were the norm?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-26
  4. A new Gleam feature I love
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-27
  5. Closing a three-year-old issue using Rust arenas
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. Here's his presentations page: https://giacomocavalieri.me/speaking

    Comment linking /speaking

    on “Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore”
  2. Submitted What if best practices were the norm? as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Fixing my gripes with GitHub using Gleam and a Raspberry Pi as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted A new Gleam feature I love as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Testing Can Be Fun, Actually as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Effortless animations with CSS view transitions as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted A new Gleam feature I love as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Effortless animations with CSS view transitions as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Closing a three-year-old issue using Rust arenas as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Closing a three-year-old issue using Rust arenas as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Testing Can Be Fun as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Testing Can Be Fun as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted What if best practices were the norm? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Look I made this with Gleam as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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