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Leonora Tindall
Personal blog · nora.codes/postprogrammingsystemssecurity
Leonora Tindall's personal blog at nora.codes covers programming, systems and security. Since 2019, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “What Is Rust's Unsafe? (2019)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Leonora Tindall's posts on scaling Mastodon are linked as a source in a discussion of Twitter outages. Other comments mention her blogging about social network privacy but do not discuss the posts.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- What Is Rust's Unsafe? (2019)8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2019-07-12
- What Programmers Can Learn from Modular Synthesis and Unix3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-08-01
- in Rust, methods should be object safe3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-05-10
- Scaling Mastodon in the face of an exodus2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-11
- The Fediverse is already dead2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-24
- Don't Make Students Use Eclipse2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-11
- Names, Legal Names, and Fractally Deferred Responsibility2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-11
- System76 Thelio: A Review2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-02-23
What Hacker News says?
"unsafe" has a very specific meaning in the context of Rust[1][2]: particularly letting you perform actions that can potentially cause undefined behavior. Defining `as` as saturating is removing UB. That being said, the reason it is considered unidiomatic is because saturating or wrapping might not be what your intention could be, so other ways of turning one type to another is needed and should be recommended (into…
Comment linking /post/what-is-rusts-unsafe/
on “Rust 1.45”Submitted Don't Make Students Use Eclipse as a story · 276 points
HN discussionI don't agree. "Ourselves"? Did I have a choice in my entire social network choosing to use Facebook and Twitter? Did I have a choice in LinkedIn being my best option for getting employment? No. I talk about this stuff all the time. I blog [1] about it and complain about it to my family and friends until it gets annoying. And it _does not matter_ how much individual effort I put into this because people have no ince…
Comment linking /post/deletefacebook-and-fosta/
on “European Commission prefers breaking privacy to protecting kids”Submitted Stop Making Students Use Eclipse (2020) as a story · 270 points
HN discussionMastodon has had its issues, both globally and for specific instances. Sidekiq falling over is a big one. See: < https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/scaling/ > and < https://nora.codes/post/scaling-mastodon-in-the-face-of-an-e... > (I have to email my own admin every few months to ckeck if things are OK.) And during the October Revolution as hoardes arrived from birdland, things got ssssslllloooowwww globally. Worke…
Comment linking /post/scaling-mastodon-in-the-face-of-an-exodus/
on “Twitter Is DDOSing Itself”Submitted Speedy Desktop Apps with GTK and Rust as a story · 226 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scaling Mastodon in the face of an exodus as a story · 213 points
HN discussionSubmitted System76 Thelio: A Review as a story · 142 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Rust's Unsafe? (2019) as a story · 140 points
HN discussionSubmitted Const Generics in Rust as a story · 98 points
HN discussionSubmitted in Rust, methods should be object safe as a story · 61 points
HN discussionSubmitted Names, Legal Names, and Fractally Deferred Responsibility as a story · 58 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Programmers Can Learn from Modular Synthesis and Unix as a story · 37 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Intro to x86_64 Reverse Engineering as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Fediverse is already dead as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Methods Should Be Object Safe as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Rust's Unsafe? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nimi sin: make more specific words as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted 'Secure' Is Meaningless as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modular Synthesis and Unix as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted System76 Thelio: A Review as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Manually Restoring Scroll Position on Reload with JavaScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Back to Zsh as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Names, Legal Names, and Fractally Deferred Responsibility as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Locking Down Firefox (2017) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Methods Should Be Object Safe as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is Rust's Unsafe? (2019) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Fediverse Is Already Dead as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modular Synthesis and Unix (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Readable Tests with Fluent Testing APIs as a story · 1 points
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