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Mixu's blog
Personal blog · blog.mixu.net · on HN as mixuprogrammingwebstartups
Mixu's blog is a personal blog at blog.mixu.net about programming, web and startups. Since 2010, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Understanding the node.js event loop”. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Mixu's personal blog from 2009 to 2011, covering Node.js, nginx, WordPress multisite and related hosting and networking tips. Commenters cite its Node.js event-loop explanation and nginx websocket guide.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog
Most-linked posts?
- Understanding the node.js event loop7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2011-03-01
- Javascript, node.js and for loops2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-06-05
- Understanding the Node.js event loop2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-06-09
- Writing about technical topics like it’s 20122 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-09-04
What Hacker News says?
nginx supports http1.1 reverse proxying as of a few weeks ago http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpProxyModule Mikito Takada (Zendesk) has some really helpful information regarding socket.io + haproxy specific workarounds via http://blog.mixu.net/2011/08/13/nginx-websockets-ssl-and-soc...
Comment linking /2011/08/13/nginx-websockets-ssl-and-socket-io-deployment
on “The Trello Tech Stack”Submitted Understanding the node.js event loop as a story · 48 points
HN discussionI think we are saying the same thing. When I say 'it is still only processing one request at a time', I'm referring to my code execution, not the async stuff or anything else within Node. I found this to be a good explanation... http://blog.mixu.net/2011/02/01/understanding-the-node-js-ev...
Comment linking /2011/02/01/understanding-the-node-js-event-loop/
on “Heroku Blog: Routing Performance Update”Submitted Essential Node.js patterns and snippets as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI know this is a bit different, but maybe you could modify it a bit so you don't need sshuttle? http://blog.mixu.net/2009/05/05/how-to-watch-hulu-videos-via... Just make your server listen for ssh on port 80 or 443, and then tunnel away!
Comment linking /2009/05/05/how-to-watch-hulu-videos-via-ssh-tunneling/
on “Never again be thwarted by restrictive “guest” wifi (e.g. on buses or airplanes)”Submitted Writing about technical topics like it’s 2012 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf someone has a recommendation on the best method of configuring this for multiple domains (not subdomains) on a cloud host, I'd appreciate the pointer. I've found this: http://blog.mixu.net/2010/05/17/setting-up-multisite-wordpre... Which references this: http://www.interconnectit.com/840/wordpress-3-0-multisite-wi... These assume you can edit your Apache conf, and many cloud hosts don't support that.
Comment linking /2010/05/17/setting-up-multisite-wordpress-3-0-with-multiple-different-domains/
on “WordPress 3.0 available”Submitted Javascript, node.js and for loops as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFirst: node is freaking amazing . I've been writing python CGI on Apache for the last few years, but can easily see myself moving to: nginx -> Static html/javascript/images/css node.js -> API Apache -> old Python CGI stuff I still want (beautiful soup, for instance) To me, this stack is a lot more comfortable, and is a lot faster. ---- Here are a couple of things that this tut misses. 1) You need to talk to your dat…
Comment linking /2011/02/01/understanding-the-node-js-event-loop/
on “Beginning Node.js Development ”Submitted Understanding the node.js event loop as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis might be interesting for you. Sorry not Node expert myself, but it seems to touch some of your question. http://blog.mixu.net/2011/02/01/understanding-the-node-js-ev...
Comment linking /2011/02/01/understanding-the-node-js-event-loop/
on “How does single-threaded node performs better than multi-threaded apache/nginx?”Submitted Javascript, node.js and for loops as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding Node.js event loop as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding the Node.js event loop as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding the node.js event loop as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding the node.js event loop as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning node.js: my experiences and helpful resources as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 4 simple ways startup people deceive themselves as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Open Source Software in projects: Beware of the passionate liars as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing about technical topics like it's 2012 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding the node.js event loop as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Performance benchmarking a node.js backend as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to deploy web applications using Mercurial as a story · 1 points
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