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Markus Eliasson
Personal blog · markuseliasson.se/article · on HN as eliassonprogramming
Markus Eliasson's personal blog at markuseliasson.se covers programming. Since 2018, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “A BitTorrent client in Python 3.5”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters point to this blog's Python BitTorrent tutorial as a free alternative to a tutorial that requires sign-in. The comment lists it with other free BitTorrent tutorials.
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.
I'm Markus. I enjoy programming and software development. Occasionally I write something or work on a piece of open-source software.
Most-linked posts?
- A BitTorrent client in Python 3.52 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-29
- /article/bittorrent-in-python/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-10
What Hacker News says?
A few years ago I wrote an BitTorrent client in Python 3.5 to get to know asyncio better. Maybe those blogposts are still of use to somebody: - http://markuseliasson.se/article/introduction-to-asyncio/ - http://markuseliasson.se/article/bittorrent-in-python/
Comment linking /article/bittorrent-in-python/
on “The magic of asyncio explained”Submitted Guilt-Driven Development as a story · 5 points
HN discussionNot a book but I wrote an article about implementing the basics of a BitTorrent client in Python a few years ago. Maybe you'll find that useful. https://markuseliasson.se/article/bittorrent-in-python/
Comment linking /article/bittorrent-in-python/
on “Show HN: Torrentinim – low memory-footprint, API-only torrent search engine”Submitted Type-Safe Internationalization in Gleam as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI have had fun building a small test-framework in Gleam recently. https://github.com/eliasson/garanti/ Just this friday I wrote an article that took a look under the hood. https://markuseliasson.se/article/under-the-hood-of-a-gleam-...
Comment linking /article/under-the-hood-of-a-gleam-test-framework
on “Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)”Submitted A BitTorrent client in Python 3.5 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://markuseliasson.se/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Under the hood of a Gleam test-framework as a story · 1 points
HN discussionwhat's with the sign in required, is this a paid tutorial? Here are some free tutorials: JS - https://allenkim67.github.io/programming/2016/05/04/how-to-m... GO - https://blog.jse.li/posts/torrent/ Python - https://markuseliasson.se/article/bittorrent-in-python/
Comment linking /article/bittorrent-in-python/
on “Build Your Own BitTorrent”Submitted Building your own DSL does not have be to be hard (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bytes do not destroy software – people do as a story · 1 points
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