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Perpetually Curious Blog

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Perpetually Curious Blog is a personal blog at lambdafoo.com about programming and systems. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Why do frame pointers matter for OCaml?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-14, and you can follow it by feed.

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8mentions?
7HN people?
2015–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2025

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked for an OCaml debugging experiment using the Debug Adapter Protocol. The single comment cites it as a basis for extending that work and does not judge the writing itself.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

The author on HN?

lambda_foo · 101 karma · member since 2009

http://lambdafoo.com http://github.com/tmcgilchrist :-)

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Why do frame pointers matter for OCaml?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. Indeed, efforts should be made in terms of DAP ( https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol// ), extending the following experimentation: https://lambdafoo.com/posts/2024-03-25-ocaml-debugging-with-... . However, I find the assertion about tooling a bit exaggerated, don't you?

    Comment linking /posts/2024-03-25-ocaml-debugging-with-emacs.html

    on “OCaml as my primary language”
  2. Submitted Why do frame pointers matter for OCaml? as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Getting Started with OCaml in 2021 as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Why do frame pointers matter for OCaml? as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Lenses in OCaml as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Unreliable Guide to OCaml Modules as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted More Tree-sitter, more neocaml, more elisp as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Quick Hardware Performance Counters on macOS ARM64 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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