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Personal blog · menno.ioprogrammingsystems

menno.io is a personal blog at menno.io about programming and systems. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Faster software through register based calling”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-26, and you can follow it by feed.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2017–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2021

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

Why HN links it

Linked as examples of audio projects: its posts on PulseAudio monitoring and a Raspberry Pi VU meter. The only comment is a bare list of links 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.

Highly irregular postings about technology and life

Most-linked posts?

  1. Faster software through register based calling
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-23

What Hacker News says?

  1. - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pulsectl/17.1.3 - http://larsimmisch.github.io/pyalsaaudio/ - https://askubuntu.com/questions/129412/pulseaudio-and-python... - http://menno.io/posts/pulseaudio_monitoring/ - http://menno.io/posts/raspberry_pi_vu_meter/ You know exactly what features you'd want. This is my attempt at inspiration. :P

    Comment linking /posts/raspberry_pi_vu_meter/

    on “Lisp at the Frontier of Computation [video]”
  2. Submitted Faster software through register based calling as a story · 87 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Go 1.17: Faster software through register-based calling as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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