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Matt Westcott

Personal blog · mattwestcott.co.uk/blogprogrammingai

Matt Westcott's personal blog at mattwestcott.co.uk covers programming and ai. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Structured Concurrency in Python with AnyIO”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-28, and you can follow it by feed.

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6mentions?
5HN people?
2016–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2020

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

Why HN links it

Linked in a 2016 'Who wants to be hired' thread as a CV and about page for a graduate backend engineer. The comment only gives a job listing and says nothing about the writing.

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.

Writing about AI and software engineering

Most-linked posts?

  1. Structured Concurrency in Python with AnyIO
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-08-18

What Hacker News says?

  1. Award-winning graduate seeking backend engineer role, interested in AI-focused startups. --- Location: London Remote: No Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Go, Clojure Résumé/CV: http://mattwestcott.co.uk/about , https://github.com/mjwestcott Email: m.westcott@gmail.com

    Comment linking /about

    on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2016)”
  2. Submitted How to implement Kafka-like semantics on top of Redis streams as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Structured Concurrency in Python with AnyIO as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Structured Concurrency in Python with AnyIO as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Structured Concurrency in Python with AnyIO – Matt Westcott as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Structured Concurrency in Python with AnyIO as a story · 1 points

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