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MMapped blog
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MMapped blog is a personal blog at mmapped.blog about programming and systems. Since 2022, 29 different Hacker News readers have linked it 48 times, most often “Box Combinators”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its Rust posts, mainly on error handling, including a piece on error types and backtraces. One commenter also cites a blog listing page as an example of a post index.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Box Combinators5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-06-02
- Stepanov's biggest blunder? The curious case of adjacent difference4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-07-14
- Static Types Are for Perfectionists4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-04-01
- The Third Hard Problem3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-28
- /posts/12-rust-error-handling3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-06-29
- Scaling Rust Builds with Bazel2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-22
- Tag-Based Logging2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-19
- The plan-execute pattern2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-21
- When Rust Hurts2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-14
- Designing Error Types in Rust2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-23
What Hacker News says?
A sibling reminded me of the blog post that convinced me. Here it is: https://mmapped.blog/posts/12-rust-error-handling
Comment linking /posts/12-rust-error-handling
on “Error handling in Rust”Submitted Enlightenmentware as a story · 444 points
HN discussionI suspect you're referring to this article, which is a good read indeed: https://mmapped.blog/posts/12-rust-error-handling
Comment linking /posts/12-rust-error-handling
on “Error handling in Rust”Submitted The plan-execute pattern as a story · 154 points
HN discussionThe following articles may also be of interest to the audience: - The definitive guide to error handling in Rust [0] - Error Handling for Large Rust Projects - Best Practice in GreptimeDB [1] - Designing error types in Rust [2] - Modular Errors in Rust [3] [0]: https://www.howtocodeit.com/articles/the-definitive-guide-to... [1]: https://greptime.com/blogs/2024-05-07-error-rust [2]: https://mmapped.blog/posts/12-rust…
Comment linking /posts/12-rust-error-handling
on “Trying to get error backtraces in Rust libraries right”Submitted Universal domain types as a story · 108 points
HN discussionno i am talking about a page like this - https://www.seangoedecke.com/page/2 or - https://mmapped.blog/posts this or - https://kevinpatel.xyz/posts/ this
Comment linking /posts
on “You don't know HTML Lists”Submitted Stepanov's biggest blunder? The curious case of adjacent difference as a story · 74 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming Avant-Garde as a story · 67 points
HN discussionSubmitted Transaction models are programming paradigms as a story · 47 points
HN discussionSubmitted Static Types Are for Perfectionists as a story · 39 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designing Error Types in Rust as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted Transposing Tensor Files as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Numeric Tower Fiasco as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Box Combinators as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Enlightenmentware as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Box Combinators as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stepanov's Biggest Blunder as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stepanov's Biggest Blunder as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Box Combinators as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted 3000 Days of Duolingo as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designing Error Types in Rust as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Backtrack-Free Cursive as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Box Combinators as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Static Types Are for Perfectionists as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Third Hard Problem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Compilation Is Communication as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tag-Based Logging as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Text Box Drawing Combinators as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Parasites Found as a story · 2 points
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