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Matt Harrison
Personal blog · matt-harrison.comprogrammingweb
Matt Harrison's personal blog at matt-harrison.com covers programming and web. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Ray Tracing: WebAssembly vs. JavaScript”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-09, 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 for its post on moving a REST back end from Express to hapi.js, shared alongside a video link in a thread about choosing a back-end language.
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.
Software and Machine Learning Engineer based in the UK
Most-linked posts?
- Ray Tracing: WebAssembly vs. JavaScript2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-08-13
- Solving Towers of Hanoi with TLA+2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-04
- Express to Hapi.js2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-26
What Hacker News says?
Great tutorial! I took this work and expanded on it by building a Rust/Wasm version of this Raytracer. I wrote about it here: http://matt-harrison.com/raytracing-webassembly-vs-javascrip...
Comment linking /raytracing-webassembly-vs-javascript/
on “Literate raytracer: a simple implementation of raytracing in Javascript”Submitted Using hapi.js with Socket.io as a story · 6 points
HN discussionhttp://matt-harrison.com/moving-from-express-to-hapi-js/ https://youtu.be/Recv7vR8ZlA
Comment linking /moving-from-express-to-hapi-js/
on “Ask HN: What is the best language to write a REST back end in?”Submitted Express to Hapi.js as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ray Tracing: WebAssembly vs. JavaScript as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Solving Towers of Hanoi with TLA+ as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ray Tracing: WebAssembly vs. JavaScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Loupe: Lightweight dev tracing for LLM apps as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stay Ahead of Scammers: A GPT-4 SMS Bot to Keep You Safe from Phishing Texts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Started with GitHub Actions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Solving Towers of Hanoi with TLA+ as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted BSprites: Combined web assets using Typed Arrays and Data URIs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a complex web component with React as a story · 1 points
HN discussion