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Nicholas Blumhardt

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Nicholas Blumhardt's personal blog at nblumhardt.com covers programming. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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2016–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2016

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Why HN links it

HN links Nicholas Blumhardt's .NET dependency injection post on relationship types (Lazy<B>, Func<B>, IEnumerable<B>), calling it a better take, and his 'literate console' post on Serilog console output.

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  1. rhencke · 2020-11-10Recommends
    A better take on DI wireups in .NET: https://nblumhardt.com/2010/01/the-relationship-zoo/ The gist: Relationship Adapter Type Meaning A needs a B None Dependency A needs a B at some point in the future Lazy<B> Delayed instantiation A needs to create instances of B Func<B> Dynamic instantiation A provides parameters of types X and Y to B Func<X,Y,B> Parameterisation A needs all the kinds of B IEnumerable<B> Enumerati…

    Comment linking /2010/01/the-relationship-zoo/

    on “.NET 5.0”
  2. Submitted Exploring Rust (from C#) as a story · 148 points

    HN discussion
  3. nblumhardt · 2016-07-23Recommends
    Thanks for the reply! NLog's configuration story is certainly impressive; I think the differences in approach make them hard to compare directly on some of these however (for example, most sinks based on network I/O do asynchronous batching by default in Serilog). Just on the topic of console output, you might enjoy the "literate console" - https://nblumhardt.com/2015/06/contender-for-nets-prettiest-... - for a diff…

    Comment linking /2015/06/contender-for-nets-prettiest-console/

    on “Serilog – Simple .NET logging with fully-structured events”
  4. Submitted Themed logging with ANSI colors on Windows 10 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Making the Leap from Windows-Only to .NET Core/Linux/Docker as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Superpower: a new token-driven parser combinator library for C# as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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