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Most-linked posts?

1. Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple
   4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-07-11
2. Go Error Propagation and API Contracts
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-07
3. Proposing a Definition for "Context Awareness" in Go APIs
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-20
4. Testing Frameworks and Mini-Languages
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-07

What Hacker News says?

1. unleaded · 2025-09-04

   My favourite is the wide weave one (#15).. what looks like the same pattern is on X and old Windows too. See also Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple: https://matttproud.com/blog/posts/x-window-system-boot-stipp...

   Comment linking /blog/posts/x-window-system-boot-stipple.html

   on “Classic 8×8-pixel B&W Mac patterns”
2. todsacerdoti · 2024-07-11

   Submitted Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple as a story · 219 points

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3. DonHopkins · 2025-05-30

   Have you ever knitted any user interface widgets or gui dialogs? I carved an OPEN LOOK scrollbar out of soap once. https://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/11/16/open_look_scrollba... An X-Windows Root Weave Boot Stipple Sweater would be cozy, with a nice big "X_cursor" on the front. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40936808 https://matttproud.com/blog/posts/x-window-system-boot-stipp... https://matttproud.com/blog/p…

   Comment linking /blog/posts/x-window-system-boot-stipple/xfree86-startup.png

   on “Why is everybody knitting chickens?”
4. zdw · 2025-09-23

   Submitted Requiem for a Hash Function, or: How I learned to love package maphash as a story · 21 points

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5. matttproud · 2024-03-20

   I'm about as old school as you can get with preference for CLI and simple text-oriented development environments. I recently picked up R again for a long-term data science project ( https://matttproud.com/blog/posts/teaser-weather-temp-repres... ) after having not used it since university. In spite of a fair bit of annoyance with the R language ( https://matttproud.com/blog/posts/rant-and-r-melt-function.h... ), I f…

   Comment linking /blog/posts/rant-and-r-melt-function.html

   on “RStudio: Integrated development environment (IDE) for R”
6. todsacerdoti · 2025-04-07

   Submitted Testing Frameworks and Mini-Languages as a story · 5 points

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7. matttproud · 2025-10-07

   One of the worst things a developer accustomed to Bazel (and its relatives) can do with a modern language (say Go or Rust) is to model code and organize it through the Bazel concept of a build target ( https://bazel.build/concepts/build-ref ) first and then second represent it with the language's local organization concepts versus the other way around. One should preferentially model the code with the language-local…

   Comment linking /blog/posts/go-package-centricity.html

   on “Build files are the best tool to represent software architecture”
8. KomoD · 2025-11-26

   Submitted Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple (2024) as a story · 4 points

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9. matttproud · 2026-01-26

   Method signatures in gRPC present a pandora's box of questions: https://matttproud.com/blog/posts/grpc-method-discipline.htm... . The questions aren't unique to gRPC, however; gRPC forces you to confront them early and explicitly IMO, which is not a bad thing.

   Comment linking /blog/posts/grpc-method-discipline.html

   on “Transfering Files with gRPC”
10. todsacerdoti · 2025-07-05

    Submitted Approach to LLMs and Other Reflections as a story · 4 points

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11. DonHopkins · 2026-07-07

    Or X11 default root weave pattern. https://matttproud.com/blog/posts/x-window-system-boot-stipp...

    Comment linking /blog/posts/x-window-system-boot-stipple.html

    on “Discord banned 8k users for posting benign grid images”
12. codesuki · 2025-06-01

    Submitted Go Error Propagation and API Contracts as a story · 4 points

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13. matttproud · 2024-08-20

    Submitted Go test: What happens under the hood with the testing harness when you run it as a story · 3 points

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14. todsacerdoti · 2024-06-07

    Submitted Go Error Propagation and API Contracts as a story · 3 points

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15. mkrasnovsky · 2025-06-01

    Submitted Elegant Configuration APIs and Command Line Flags as a story · 2 points

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16. todsacerdoti · 2025-05-29

    Submitted Golden File Testing as a story · 2 points

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17. signa11 · 2024-07-12

    Submitted In Praise of the Fc Shell Builtin as a story · 2 points

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18. jrhey · 2024-03-25

    Submitted Neologism: Context Awareness in Go as a story · 2 points

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19. matttproud · 2024-02-20

    Submitted Proposing a Definition for "Context Awareness" in Go APIs as a story · 2 points

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20. homebrewer · 2026-01-08

    Submitted Go: Testing Frameworks and Mini-Languages (2025) as a story · 1 points

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21. matttproud · 2024-06-27

    Submitted Revisiting Test Sizes as a story · 1 points

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22. matttproud · 2024-02-12

    Submitted Squaring the Go Context API and Program Scopes as a story · 1 points

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