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Personal blog · packetlost.dev · on HN as packetlostsystemsprogramming

prose.sh is a personal blog at packetlost.dev about systems and programming. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Cachelines and Striped Locks (2023)”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2023

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packetlost · 5,351 karma · member since 2019

*nix and foss enthusiast Viewpoints are my own and not the viewpoints of my employer. noah@packetlost.dev

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Cachelines and Striped Locks (2023)
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-07-31
  2. The Terminal Jockey's Toolbelt
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-05
  3. Notes from Learning Clojure
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-10

What Hacker News says?

  1. Most "CI" platforms suck in some way. I attribute it to a mix of misaligned incentives (less efficient pipelines, more premium-rate CPU cycles to resell, lockin, etc.) and the fact that it's actually just a hard problem. See: https://packetlost.dev/Why%20Does%20CI%20Suck

    Comment linking /Why%20Does%20CI%20Suck

    on “The Pain That Is GitHub Actions”
  2. Submitted The Terminal Jockey's Toolbelt as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  3. Location: Madison, WI Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes, for the right price to the right location. Primarily interested in Seattle/PNW. Résumé/CV: https://packetlost.dev/blog/resume/ Email: jobs@packetlost.dev Currently technical lead for control systems of a flagship product at a quantum focused company. I work regularly with PhD physicists, electrical engineers, and lead a small team of software engineers to d…

    Comment linking /blog/resume/

    on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2024)”
  4. Submitted Notes from Learning Clojure as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  5. DSLs and API are fundamentally the same thing, they're making decisions for the user so they can be sped up and reduce cognitive load. The only difference is the manner in which it's expressed. It turns out functions and interfaces are a pretty good way to express... most things you want to do in a program. Lisp acknowledges this and runs with it. IMO we need a language (or library?) that forces builders of an API t…

    Comment linking /blog/lang-scribbles/

    on “Little languages are the future of programming”
  6. Submitted Cachelines and Striped Locks (2023) as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. Location: Madison, WI Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes, for the right price to the right location Résumé/CV: https://packetlost.dev/blog/resume/ Email: jobs@packetlost.dev Currently technical lead for control systems of a flagship product at a quantum focused company. I work regularly with PhD physicists, electrical engineers, and lead a small team of software engineers to design, develop, and test both realtime…

    Comment linking /blog/resume/

    on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2024)”
  8. Submitted $500 Bounty for Reverse Engineering the Pine64 Ox64 WiFi as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Location: Madison, WI, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes, preferably to PNW, East Coast OK, Europe OK, Asia OK Technologies: Python, Go, Rust, C, distributed systems, database design, hard realtime scientific control systems, technical leadership, Linux kernel dev (novice) Résumé: https://packetlost.dev/blog/resume/ Email: See resume link above I've been working at a quantum computing/research company for the…

    Comment linking /blog/resume/

    on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2023)”
  10. Submitted Notes from Learning Clojure as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted The Terminal Jockey's Toolbelt as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Cachelines and Striped Locks as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Cachelines and Striped Locks as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Cachelines and Striped Locks as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Magic Python Objects – Defining and Encoding Strict Types Using BARE as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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