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Jeffrey Stedfast
Personal blog · jeffreystedfast.blogspot.comprogramming
Jeffrey Stedfast writes A Moment of Zen, a personal blog at jeffreystedfast.blogspot.com about programming. Since 2009, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jeffrey Stedfast's blog for posts on Mono and C# and on MIME parsing edge cases and optimization, such as a 2009 post on Mono not relying on Microsoft libraries.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The Ramblings of Jeffrey Stedfast
What Hacker News says?
Jeffrey Steadfast discusses the edge cases of MIME parsing and performance optimizations in his MIT/X11 C# library here: http://jeffreystedfast.blogspot.com/2013/10/optimization-tip... I appreciate how the Flanker release includes benchmarks without thrashing on alternative implementations.
Comment linking /2013/10/optimization-tips-tricks-used-by.html
on “We just open sourced Flanker, our Python email address and Mime parsing library”Submitted Mono not Chasing Tail Lights as a story · 52 points
HN discussionWhen ALSA was imported into the mainline kernel, software mixing became possible without servers and they largely died out. My experience was completely different. A few years ago, ALSA software mixing was not enabled by default and didn't work well when enabled. When not enabled, apps couldn't share the audio device at all. KDE created aRts to allow sharing at the app level, but aRts sucked, plus it hogged the audi…
Comment linking /2008/06/pulseaudio-solution-in-search-of.html
on “Switching to Linux: A Windows developer’s view”Submitted Moonlight on Android as a story · 18 points
HN discussionI really think u should read <a> http://jeffreystedfast.blogspot.com/2009/09/mono-not-chasing... . The larger Mono projects on Linux are built on the language and CLR features implemented in Mono; and don't rely on Microsoft libraries like WinForms. And as far as language features are concerned, the downloadable Mono compiler even implements part of the C# 4 spec. Also, the popular Linux/Mono apps hardly work on Win…
Comment linking /2009/09/mono-not-chasing-tail-lights.html&
on “Miguel de Icaza responds to latest RMS article”Submitted Code Review: Microsoft's System.Net.Mail Implementation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimization Tips & Tricks used by MimeKit: Part 1 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing MimeKit: A robust open source MIME and mbox parser as a story · 1 points
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