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Josiah Carlson
Personal blog · dr-josiah.comprogrammingdata
Josiah Carlson writes A Dash of Technology, a personal blog at dr-josiah.com about programming and data. Since 2013, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Forking Redis: SSL/TLS and Transactions”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Josiah Carlson's blog for practical systems-engineering write-ups, such as databases on SSDs and using Redis to build locks. Comments cite it as a reference rather than praise it directly.
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.
Josiah Carlson talks about Redis, Python, and other technology topics.
Most-linked posts?
- Forking Redis: SSL/TLS and Transactions2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-04-26
What Hacker News says?
Reminds me of: Databases on SSDs, Initial Ideas on Tuning (2010) [1] [1] https://www.dr-josiah.com/2010/08/databases-on-ssds-initial-...
Comment linking /2010/08/databases-on-ssds-initial-ideas-on.html
on “What Does a Database for SSDs Look Like?”Submitted Forking Redis: SSL/TLS and Transactions as a story · 77 points
HN discussionIt's also not too hard to DIY: http://www.dr-josiah.com/2012/01/creating-lock-with-redis.ht... https://github.com/njbooher/boglab_tools/blob/dece35f13a8fcb... When multiple processes ask this for the same file one of them downloads it and the others wait for it to finish.
Comment linking /2012/01/creating-lock-with-redis.html
on “Why Not Python - the GIL hinders concurrency”Submitted Transactions in Redis as a story · 60 points
HN discussionSubmitted New Redis Fork with SSL and Transactions as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why thorium reactors are important as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why We Didn't Use A Bloom Filter as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Module properties in Python as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Steganography in Python as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why thorium reactors are important as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Forking Redis Followup as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simplifying Postgres Permissions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Multi-column (SQL-like) sorting in Redis as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is going on with rom? (the Redis/Python object mapper) as a story · 1 points
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