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Personal blog · jemma.dev/blog · on HN as jemmaissroffprogramming

jemma.dev is a personal blog at jemma.dev about programming. Since 2020, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive: GC::INTERNAL_CONSTANTS”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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20mentions?
13HN people?
2020–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link jemma.dev for Vim tutorials and a write-up on garbage collection. One commenter keeps its Vim tips guide bookmarked for learning a few commands at a time.

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.

The author on HN?

jemmaissroff · 21 karma · member since 2020

https://jemma.dev

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive: GC::INTERNAL_CONSTANTS
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-02-03
  2. Git stash doesn’t have to be scary
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-12-04
  3. Vim Tips for the Intermediate Vim User
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-11-04
  4. Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive: Tri-Color Mark and Sweep
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. And the big caveat to this simple modification is that, if done naively, previously marked objects may become the sole referencers of non-garbage without being re-enumerated - potentially leading to the garbage-collection of non-garbage, which would be a serious bug. To fix this, you might have the live code that runs in-between the partial mark+sweeps mark objects to be re-swept as it runs. This adds overhead and c…

    Comment linking /blog/gc-incremental

    on “Baby’s First Garbage Collector (2013)”
  2. Submitted Awk: `Begin { ` Part 1 as a story · 216 points

    HN discussion
  3. The first post in the series also explains RVALUES in the context of the Ruby Heap if it's helpful https://jemma.dev/blog/gc-internal

    Comment linking /blog/gc-internal

    on “Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive: Tri-Color Mark and Sweep”
  4. Submitted Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive: Tri-Color Mark and Sweep as a story · 140 points

    HN discussion
  5. janvdberg · 2022-12-01Recommends
    I keep this URL in my bookmarks: https://jemma.dev/blog/intermediate-vim-tips Most advanced guides throw a lot at you at once. Digesting one or few commands at a time works better for me to really make it stick (and that is the goal right?)

    Comment linking /blog/intermediate-vim-tips

    on “A Vim Guide for Advanced Users”
  6. Submitted Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive: Compaction as a story · 114 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive: GC::INTERNAL_CONSTANTS as a story · 62 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted IRB's Built-In Measure as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive: Tri-Color Mark and Sweep as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Git stash doesn’t have to be scary as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Git stash doesn’t have to be scary as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Executing GraphQL Queries as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Vim Tips for the Intermediate Vim User as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Ruby Garbage Collection in Under Two Hours as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted IRB's Built-In Measure as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Vim Tips for the Intermediate Vim User (2020) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive: Generational Garbage Collection as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Ruby’s Method#parameters as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Git stash doesn't have to be scary as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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