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integralist
Personal blog · integralist.co.uk/postsprogrammingweb
integralist is a personal blog at integralist.co.uk about programming and web. Since 2010, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link integralist's posts on web development topics such as JavaScript and web performance, cache headers, and BEM CSS. Commenters present them as clearer explanations than some official docs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
I see a lot of comments that are talking about how python does not have a go-like concurrency story. Fyi - python ASGI frameworks like fastapi/Starlette are the same developer experience as go. They also compete on techempower benchmarks. Also used in production by Uber, Microsoft,etc. A queue based system is used for a very different tradeoff of persistence vs concurrency. It's similar to saying that the usecase fo…
Comment linking /posts/python-asyncio/
on “Why do we need Flask, Celery, and Redis? (2019)”Submitted Guide to Concurrency in Python with Asyncio as a story · 195 points
HN discussionGood addition! Here are some more: https://ferd.ca https://blog.filippo.io https://lethain.com http://movingpackets.net https://www.integralist.co.uk https://peter.bourgon.org/blog https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog https://begriffs.com https://mijailovic.net http://tatiyants.com http://blog.pentestbegins.com (seems down right now?) https://kalzumeus.com/archive http://blog.stephenwolfram.com https://paragonie.co…
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on “Ask HN: What are some of the tech blogs you follow regularly?”Submitted Profiling Go as a story · 167 points
HN discussionJavaScript and Web Performance books you need to read http://www.integralist.co.uk/javascript/javascript-and-web-p... Really all you need
Comment linking /javascript/javascript-and-web-performance-books-you-need-to-read/
on “Need best Javascript books suggestion”Submitted Observability and Monitoring Best Practices as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI've always had a great a time using Fastly (varnish) for caching. You can cache a lot more than you think if you mastermind your strategy. A diagram of fastly/varnish state -> https://www.integralist.co.uk/images/fastly-request-flow.png
Comment linking /images/fastly-request-flow.png
on “Your Cache Headers Could Probably be More Aggressive”Submitted Data Types and Data Structures as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYeah their official site is little cryptic to read. Try this http://www.integralist.co.uk/posts/bem.html
Comment linking /posts/bem.html
on “Forget CSS Specificity, Always Use BEM”Submitted Security Basics with GPG, OpenSSH, OpenSSL and Keybase as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding Golang's Func Type (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Golang Reverse Proxy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maintainable CSS with BEM as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ruby Refactoring Techniques as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Refactoring Techniques as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Types and Data Structures as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python 101: iterators, generators, coroutines (2019) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding recursion in functional JavaScript programming as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beginners guide to AMD and RequireJS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Grunts Config API as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dynamically Generated Grunt Tasks as a story · 1 points
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