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It works is a personal blog at blog.aawadia.dev about programming and systems. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2022

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Why HN links it

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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.

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    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. For the developers, there is a really nice go library with these formulae https://github.com/alpeb/go-finance A guide is here: https://blog.aawadia.dev/2020/12/01/finance-concepts-go-fina...

    Comment linking /2020/12/01/finance-concepts-go-finance/

    on “Spreadsheet formulas for personal finance”
  2. Submitted Self hosted Docker registry with auto image push on push to main as a story · 55 points

    HN discussion
  3. EDIT: Paste this hacky snippet into your browser's console to save all of the links into your clipboard: (() => { let result = [...document.querySelectorAll('td a')] .map((link) => link && !link.href.includes('ycombinator') && !link.href.includes('javascript:void') ? link.href : '' ) .filter(Boolean); result = [...new Set(result)]; result.sort(); copy(result.join('\n\n')); })(); Just to help, here's a compiled-list…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers”
  4. Submitted Indexing semantic versions in RocksDB as a story · 28 points

    HN discussion
  5. https://blog.aawadia.dev/

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers”
  6. Submitted Yet Another VPS Benchmark – Cloudfanatic, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr [Aug 2023] as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. https://blog.aawadia.dev/2021/02/08/where-is-this-blog-hoste... Lmk if you need any extra details

    Comment linking /2021/02/08/where-is-this-blog-hosted/

    on “Blog with Markdown and Git, and degrade gracefully through time”
  8. Submitted Counting website hits using Cloudflare workers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. https://blog.aawadia.dev/2021/01/06/upgrading-pg-10-to-12/ wrote a bit about it

    Comment linking /2021/01/06/upgrading-pg-10-to-12/

    on “PostgreSQL on ARM-Based AWS EC2 Instances”
  10. Submitted RPC over WebSockets as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. the fundamental problem with counters is that it does a read-modify-write cycle which is quite harsh on the DB - a better approach is to take advantage that counters are cumulative and we can keep the delta events only and 'merge' them on reads or just buffer the counters in redis and then flush them out I have a counters API that does precisely this Docs are here: cmd+f: 'Counters API now live' https://blog.aawadia…

    Comment linking /api/

    on “The Slotted Counter Pattern”
  12. Submitted Trying out DigitalOcean's Functions as a service offering as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. what a coincidence I just wrote about this last night on my blog - https://blog.aawadia.dev/2022/02/17/basic-auth-with-javalin/

    Comment linking /2022/02/17/basic-auth-with-javalin/

    on “Using www-authenticate for user authentication”
  14. Submitted Show HN: Building a Programming Language for Myself as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. https://blog.aawadia.dev

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”
  16. Submitted Waiting for Something as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Fsync and K8s PVC Snapshot as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Distributed eventbus using Vertx cluster manager as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Sending Messages via Signal as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Cats, Pi, and Machine Learning as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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