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hoelz.ro
Personal blog · hoelz.ro/blogprogrammingsystems
hoelz.ro is a personal blog at hoelz.ro about programming and systems. Since 2012, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Lua: Why explicit local is a good thing”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Rob's thoughts on programming and a place for his projects
Most-linked posts?
- Lua: Why explicit local is a good thing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-06-04
What Hacker News says?
Submitted Oh My Glob as a story · 35 points
HN discussionSubmitted Language of the Month: Smalltalk as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I Learned Writing a Dropbox Clone as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Know your tools: using inputrc to save keystrokes in the MySQL shell as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I Learned Writing a Dropbox Clone – Part 2 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Perl 6: Binding to C++ with NativeCall as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lua: Why explicit local is a good thing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted With SQLite, INSERT OR IGNORE Is Often Not What You Want as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thinking about Clever Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git-pisect: A Parallel Version of git-bisect as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tracking Slowdowns in Creating Child Processes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A library that prints the source code location of selected syscalls using ptrace as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Looking for .git in all the wrong places as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I Learned Writing a Dropbox Clone – Conclusion as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I Learned Writing a Dropbox Clone – Part 3 – Inotify as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Perl 5 Internals: Part Four as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Perl 5 Internals: Part Two as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lua: Why Explicit Local is a Good Thing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted SQLite Types: To Affinity and Beyond as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Discovering Your Prometheus via PromQL as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Winning at Salt Cartography Using Algorithms and Statistics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Strongly Typed Typing Tutor as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted System Sleuthing – Using ptrace to Print Backtraces as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Perl 5 Internals: Part Three as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Autopilot - Respond to system events with Lua scripts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automatically Adding Remotes For GitHub Forks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ignoring Minified Javascript Files with Ack 2 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Two Different Protocols for the Same Git Remote as a story · 1 points
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