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Len Holgate
Personal blog · lenholgate.com/blogprogramming
Len Holgate's personal blog at lenholgate.com covers programming. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post arguing that WebSockets is a stream rather than a message-based protocol. The one comment cites a later update on the HyBi 13 spec wording.
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.
Len Holgate's thoughts on this and that... Mainly test driven software development in C++ on Windows platforms...
What Hacker News says?
I posted an update when HyBi 13 came out; http://www.lenholgate.com/blog/2011/09/the-websocket-protoco... The wording was improved around the suggestion to provide only a message based API. I think the WebSockets protocol ended up being a little more than it should have been. You have to understand that it was being pulled in all sorts of directions by the working group members and that there are good reasons for al…
Comment linking /blog/2011/09/the-websocket-protocol---draft-hybi-13.html
on “WebSockets is a stream, not a message based protocol”Submitted WebSockets is a stream, not a message based protocol as a story · 68 points
HN discussionSubmitted the US government's view on memory safe code is not the whole story as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unit testing and TDD with a non-trivial C++ example as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debugging Network Protocols with Journaling as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adventures with \Device\Afd as a story · 1 points
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