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Reasonable Performance
Personal blog · vfoley.xyzprogrammingsystems
Reasonable Performance is a personal blog at vfoley.xyz about programming and systems. Since 2018, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Making Reasonable Use of Computer Resources”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on programming and tools: the word "just" in writing, coding fonts, an Emacs theme, Zig as a modern C alternative, and GNU parallel usage. HN commenters link these posts as sources or background.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Making Reasonable Use of Computer Resources4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-08-02
- My Impressions of Hare3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-01-26
- Lesser Known Coding Fonts3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-10-19
- How to alleviate the pain of Rust compile times3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-08-11
- /just/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-08
- Simple Usage of GNU Parallel2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-14
- Making Reasonable Use of Computer Resources: Part 22 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-28
What Hacker News says?
A few months ago, I wrote a blog post[1] about the word "just" that echoes the thesis of Tim's article: avoid using the word "just" if you can, it's reductive. [1] https://vfoley.xyz/just/
Comment linking /just/
on “Just don’t”Submitted Lesser Known Coding Fonts as a story · 640 points
HN discussionIt often does[0]. [0] https://vfoley.xyz/just/
Comment linking /just/
on “Ask HN: How to get rid of Gemini?”Submitted Making Reasonable Use of Computer Resources as a story · 90 points
HN discussionI have used Apl385 during a long time as my daily monospace font. It shares some features with such font (probably why I don't use it any longer!) https://vfoley.xyz/lesser-known-coding-fonts/
Comment linking /lesser-known-coding-fonts/
on “Comic Mono”Submitted My Impressions of Hare as a story · 71 points
HN discussionRegarding syntax highlighting, I created my own Emacs theme a few years ago to have only a few constructs highlighted: * The name of a function being defined * Comments * String and character literals The result is very calm [1], but I can still rely on colors to know orient myself and know when I forgot to close a string literal. [1] https://vfoley.xyz/syntax-highlighting/purp3.png
Comment linking /syntax-highlighting/purp3.png
on “A Tour of Acme (2012)”Submitted Functional Queues as a story · 30 points
HN discussionI think this blog post has a great description of the "Modern C" niche Zig fills: https://vfoley.xyz/hare/ . I tend to think of Zig in this way. If you found yourself reaching for C, you could instead reach for Zig. You'd get optionals instead of null pointers, comptime instead of macros, a real facility for handling errors, etc. It's like C but with some of the sharp edges sanded off.
Comment linking /hare/
on “Zig – SPIR-V Backend Progress”Submitted Making Reasonable Use of Computer Resources: Part 2 as a story · 18 points
HN discussionPrevious discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12943150 (165 points | Nov 13, 2016 | 65 comments) See also: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... one of which was https://vfoley.xyz/parallel/ (Simple usage of GNU parallel)
Comment linking /parallel/
on “GNU Parallel Tutorial”Submitted Making Reasonable Use of Computer Resources as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making reasonable use of computer resources as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to alleviate the pain of Rust compile times as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Reasonable Use of Computer Resources as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simple Usage of GNU Parallel as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to alleviate the pain of Rust compile times as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Impressions of Hare as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lesser Known Coding Fonts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to alleviate the pain of Rust compile times as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A skill programmers lack: practice as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Reasonable Use of Computer Resources: Part 2 as a story · 1 points
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