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Matthew Gaudet
Personal blog · mgaudet.ca/technicalprogrammingsystems
Matthew Gaudet's personal blog at mgaudet.ca covers programming and systems. Since 2021, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Implementing Private Fields for JavaScript”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment, which points to a CacheIR paper and a search term in it, with no judgement of the writing. The linked posts cover JIT compiler work, such as catching up with JIT compilers.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Implementing Private Fields for JavaScript3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-06-02
- Non-Traditional Profiling3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-01-09
- Faster Ruby: Thoughts from the outside2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-09
What Hacker News says?
We talk about this a bit in our CacheIR paper. Search for "IonBuilder". https://www.mgaudet.ca/s/mplr23main-preprint.pdf
Comment linking /s/mplr23main-preprint.pdf
on “An Attempt to Catch Up with JIT Compilers”Submitted Faster Ruby: Thoughts from the outside as a story · 242 points
HN discussionI stumbled a bit using jj on a big repo [1], but I too am very interested in seeing it grow and evolve. I plan to return to my experiment sometime, would love tips on large repos and making it more manageable. [1]: https://www.mgaudet.ca/technical/2023/11/23/exploring-jujits...
Comment linking /technical/2023/11/23/exploring-jujitsu-jj
on “jj init – getting serious about replacing Git with Jujutsu”Submitted Exploring a Language Runtime with Bpftrace as a story · 29 points
HN discussionYeah, I posted a blog post [1] that explains my motivation in curating this list. Seeing the broad range of companies that do this kind of work was really helpful early in my career. [1]: https://www.mgaudet.ca/technical/2019/12/10/compiler-jobs
Comment linking /technical/2019/12/10/compiler-jobs
on “CompilerJobs – A listing of compiler, language and runtime teams”Submitted An Inline Cache Isn't Just a Cache as a story · 15 points
HN discussionRegular blog: https://www.mgaudet.ca/blog/ Technical Blog: https://www.mgaudet.ca/technical/
Comment linking /technical/
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Before you can have Smalltalk, you must first defeat capitalism? as a story · 14 points
HN discussionhttps://www.mgaudet.ca/ for general interest stuff, https://www.mgaudet.ca/technical for tech stuff. Some good ones IMO: - Implementing Private Fields for JavaScript https://www.mgaudet.ca/technical/2021/5/4/implementing-priva... - Histories, by Herodotus: https://www.mgaudet.ca/blog/2020/11/26/histories-by-herodotu...
Comment linking /blog/2020/11/26/histories-by-herodotus
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Faster Ruby: A Ruby+OMR Retrospective as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted 5 Years of CompilerJobs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted User Defined Primitives: A Sketch as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Faster Ruby: Thoughts from the Outside – Matthew Gaudet as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Non-Traditional Profiling as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Non-Traditional Profiling as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Non-Traditional Profiling: "you can just put whatever you want in a jitdump" as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Performance Investigation Challenge as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing Private Fields for JavaScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing Private Fields for JavaScript – Matthew Gaudet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing Private Fields for JavaScript as a story · 1 points
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