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Matt Hobbs

Personal blog · nooshu.com/blogwebprogramming

Matt Hobbs writes Nooshu, a personal blog at nooshu.com about web and programming. Since 2023, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Looking back at "legacy" HTML practices”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.

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8mentions?
8HN people?
2023–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2023

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Matt Hobbs's post 'Timing with Curl' on using curl's timing variables to measure request latency, cited alongside a measurement of TLS version latencies on gov.uk.

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.

Matt Hobbs is a Frontend Engineering Manager in Oxfordshire, UK. Web performance, frontend architecture, browser internals, security, and leadership.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Looking back at "legacy" HTML practices
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-26

What Hacker News says?

  1. flas9sd · 2023-08-15
    great for doing measurements in a cron to later plot them. Here someone measured TLS version latencies on gov.uk - https://nooshu.com/blog/2020/07/30/measuring-tls-13-ipv4-ipv... and has a good graph explaining the time_* variables

    Comment linking /blog/2020/07/30/measuring-tls-13-ipv4-ipv6-performance/

    on “Timing with Curl (2010)”
  2. speckx · 2026-09-02

    Submitted Using Cloudflare Workers and reCAPTCHA v3 for a Static Site Contact Form as a story · 39 points

    HN discussion
  3. joelanman · 2026-10-23

    Submitted I Built a Modern UK Government Service Using COBOL as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  4. edent · 2025-08-26

    Submitted Looking back at "legacy" HTML practices as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. edward · 2023-12-13

    Submitted Gov.uk Cookie banner and why it "won't go away" as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. FromTheArchives · 2025-08-28

    Submitted Hack to the Future – Front End as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. tambourine_man · 2024-07-20

    Submitted How to Read a WebPageTest Waterfall View Chart – Matt Hobbs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. sysadm1n · 2023-10-24

    Submitted Remove Subresource Integrity (SRI) from the Gov.uk Assets Domain as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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