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leonidasv.com is a personal blog at leonidasv.com about programming and systems. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “When SVG almost got network support for raw sockets”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-10, and you can follow it by feed.

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9mentions?
5HN people?
2023–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2023

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

Why HN links it

Posts on obscure web history, such as the abandoned plan to add raw socket networking to SVG, and on phone number parsing pitfalls. Commenters cite them as sources or guides.

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.

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The author on HN?

leonidasv · 1,647 karma · member since 2019

https://leonidasv.com/

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Most-linked posts?

  1. When SVG almost got network support for raw sockets
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-03-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil (GMT-3) Remote: Yes (only) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: full-stack web development (back-end biased), distributed systems, Go, Typescript, Kotlin, Node.js, React, Next.js, Python, gRPC, Postgres Résumé/CV: https://leonidasv.com/resume.pdf Email: leonidas _at_ leonidasv.com Hi there, I'm a Senior/Lead Full-Stack Software Engineer with back-end focus, 8+ years of experience. Hands-…

    Comment linking /resume.pdf

    on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2025)”
  2. Submitted When SVG almost got network support for raw sockets as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  3. It's explained in a blog post located at https://leonidasv.com/til-svg-specs-almost-got-raw-socket-su...

    Comment linking /til-svg-specs-almost-got-raw-socket-support/

    on “When SVG almost got network support for raw sockets”
  4. Submitted When Google paid websites to promote Firefox as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. egberts1 · 2023-03-31Recommends
    I got an even bigger guide from this article on discontinued WG for Full (networked) SVG: libphonenumber library by Google, ported in many programming languages. Covers a the general gotchas on phone number parsing (by convention, countries, and telco eccentricities). And started using it. Thanks, Hacker News. Oh, it’s a good thing that Full (networked) SVG didn’t get formalized. https://leonidasv.com/til-parsing-ph…

    Comment linking /til-parsing-phone-numbers-is-a-nightmare/

    on “When SVG almost got network support for raw sockets”
  6. Submitted When SVG almost got network support for raw sockets as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Hugo and Cloudflare Pages: https://leonidasv.com

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Do you still self-host a blog? What's your publishing stack?”
  8. Submitted SVG almost got network support for raw sockets as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Debugging third-party goroutine leaks as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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