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Lukasa's Echochamber

Personal blog · lukasa.co.uk · on HN as Lukasaprogrammingweb

Lukasa's Echochamber is a personal blog at lukasa.co.uk about programming and web. Since 2013, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “The Function Colour Myth, Or: async/await is not what you think it is”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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31mentions?
24HN people?
2013–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 12 in 2016

The author on HN?

Lukasa · 333 karma · member since 2013

My name is Cory. I build networking software. I work on open source Python projects. I write about networking and about Python. See https://lukasa.co.uk for, you know, me.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. The Function Colour Myth, Or: async/await is not what you think it is
    6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2016-08-16
  2. Debugging Your Operating System: A Lesson in Memory Allocation
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-12-05
  3. Funding OSS
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-08-10
  4. Writing A Persona Identity Provider
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-23
  5. HTTP/2.0 for Python
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-02-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. rmc · 2016-03-22
    > The concept of a corporation using your code for their profit without giving back is mostly just an imagination. One of the authors of the Python requests HTTP library has called out Uber for using Python, and almost certainly using requests, and not paying any money https://lukasa.co.uk/2015/08/Funding_OSS/

    Comment linking /2015/08/Funding_OSS/

    on “Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils”
  2. johns · 2013-04-23

    Submitted Writing A Persona Identity Provider as a story · 97 points

    HN discussion
  3. Lukasa · 2013-08-09
    I wrote a blog post about implementing an IdP from scratch in Python. (Uses Django, but the lessons should be transferable). https://lukasa.co.uk/2013/04/Writing_A_Persona_Identity_Prov...

    Comment linking /2013/04/Writing_A_Persona_Identity_Provider/

    on “Persona makes signing in easy for Gmail users”
  4. jsnell · 2016-12-09

    Submitted Debugging Your Operating System: A Lesson in Memory Allocation as a story · 80 points

    HN discussion
  5. miracle2k · 2018-04-02
    See also this reply: The Function Colour Myth ( https://lukasa.co.uk/2016/07/The_Function_Colour_Myth/ ).

    Comment linking /2016/07/The_Function_Colour_Myth/

    on “What Color is Your Function? (2015)”
  6. jsnell · 2016-12-05

    Submitted Debugging Your Operating System: A Lesson in Memory Allocation as a story · 63 points

    HN discussion
  7. ivank · 2016-12-06

    Submitted Debugging Your Operating System: A Lesson in Memory Allocation as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  8. pcr910303 · 2021-10-18

    Submitted The Function Colour Myth, Or: async/await is not what you think it is as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  9. ngrilly · 2016-08-16

    Submitted The Function Colour Myth (or async/await is not what you think it is) as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  10. cloudwalking · 2015-06-22

    Submitted iOS 9 supports HTTP/2 system-wide as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  11. Icer5k · 2014-09-03

    Submitted HTTPS is not just TLS as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  12. open-source-ux · 2016-12-19

    Submitted The GPL vs. The MIT License: Which License to Use (2012) as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  13. pcr910303 · 2021-10-17

    Submitted The Function Colour Myth, Or: async/await is not what you think it is as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  14. ingve · 2016-12-08

    Submitted Debugging Your Operating System: A Lesson in Memory Allocation as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  15. kngl · 2016-12-06

    Submitted Debugging Your Operating System: A Lesson in Memory Allocation as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  16. tshtf · 2016-04-04

    Submitted In Response to Sucuri Security as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  17. danso · 2016-12-01

    Submitted Five Whys on Requests 2.12 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  18. BerislavLopac · 2016-07-24

    Submitted HTTP/2.0 for Python as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  19. victorgama · 2015-06-29

    Submitted HTTP/2 Picks Up Steam: iOS 9 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  20. johns · 2013-03-02

    Submitted Requests and the HTTP 302 Status Code as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  21. avyfain · 2016-12-04

    Submitted The Function Colour Myth as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. ColinWright · 2015-11-17

    Submitted HTTPS Is Not Just TLS as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. japhyr · 2015-08-10

    Submitted Funding OSS as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. Lukasa · 2014-02-11

    Submitted HTTP/2.0 for Python as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. johns · 2013-04-08

    Submitted Requests' Two APIs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. ciconia · 2020-09-30

    Submitted The Function Colour Myth Or: async/await is not what you think it is (2016) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. wheresvic1 · 2018-10-18

    Submitted The Function Colour Myth as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. Sami_Lehtinen · 2014-03-08

    Submitted Hyper HTTP/2.0 For Python as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. johns · 2013-10-23

    Submitted Open Source Currency as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. Lukasa · 2013-09-25

    Submitted Requests 2.0 Changelog Explained as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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