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Nathan's Notepad
Personal blog · blog.quickmediasolutions.comprogrammingsystems
Nathan's Notepad is a personal blog at blog.quickmediasolutions.com about programming and systems. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Non-blocking Channels in Go”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link these posts for technical how-tos: shrinking an Android APK by 99.99%, building a 1KB Docker container, and reducing goroutine memory usage with non-blocking I/O.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Field notes from a software developer
Most-linked posts?
- Non-blocking Channels in Go2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-15
- A 1 KB Docker Container2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-09-29
What Hacker News says?
Also, building a 1KB Docker container: https://blog.quickmediasolutions.com/2017/09/28/a-1-kb-docke...
Comment linking /2017/09/28/a-1-kb-docker-container.html
on “APK Golf: Reducing an Android APK's Size by 99.99%”Submitted A 1 KB Docker Container as a story · 216 points
HN discussionThis would help. https://blog.quickmediasolutions.com/2015/09/13/non-blocking...
Comment linking /2015/09/13/non-blocking-channels-in-go.html
on “Goroutines, Nonblocking I/O, and Memory Usage”Submitted Running Debian 0.91 in qemu as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Non-blocking Channels in Go as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building and Running Go Apps in Docker as a story · 1 points
HN discussion