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Mort's Ramblings
Personal blog · mort.coffee/homeprogrammingsystems
Mort's Ramblings is a personal blog at mort.coffee about programming and systems. Since 2015, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Faster Virtual Machines: Speeding Up Programming Language Execution (2023)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link mort.coffee for an essay on 'considered harmful' essays and a post on Wayland cursor input latency. The comments only cite these posts as references and do not judge the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Faster Virtual Machines: Speeding Up Programming Language Execution (2023)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-01-15
- The tar archive format, and why GNU tar extracts in quadratic time2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-23
- Hacking on Clang is surprisingly easy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-27
- Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-26
What Hacker News says?
I can go one step farther with https://mort.coffee/home/considered-harmful-essays/ . That one was previous discussed on HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9744916 .
Comment linking /home/considered-harmful-essays/
on “"Authentic" is dead. And so is "is dead."”Submitted Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion as a story · 610 points
HN discussionHere's one article: https://mort.coffee/home/wayland-input-latency/ It's specifically about cursor lag, but I think that's because it's more difficult to experimentally measure app rendering latency.
Comment linking /home/wayland-input-latency/
on “Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor”Submitted Some obscure C features as a story · 340 points
HN discussionCan I just point out the interactive virtual machine visualizer[1]? I thought it turned out really neat and it was a joy to make. [1] https://mort.coffee/home/fast-interpreters/#interactive-vm
Comment linking /home/fast-interpreters/
on “Faster virtual machines: Speeding up programming language execution”Submitted The tar archive format, and why GNU tar extracts in quadratic time as a story · 317 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking on Clang is surprisingly easy as a story · 134 points
HN discussionSubmitted Faster Virtual Machines: Speeding Up Programming Language Execution (2023) as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSubmitted SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking on clang is surprisingly easy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Replaced an Apple TV with Linux and JavaScrip as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The tar archive format, its extensions, and why GNU tar extracts in quadratic ti as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted C compiler quirks I have encountered as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Faster virtual machines: Speeding up programming language execution as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Faster virtual machines: Speeding up programming language execution as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted C compiler quirks as a story · 1 points
HN discussion