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Rico Mariani
Personal blog · ricomariani.medium.comprogrammingsystems
Rico Mariani's personal blog at ricomariani.medium.com covers programming and systems. Since 2021, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Fifty Years of Microsoft Developer Tools – By Rico Mariani”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Rico Mariani's Medium posts, cited on HN for a Visual Studio design question, early Microsoft source-control history, and a WASM vs. native SQLite performance comparison.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Fifty Years of Microsoft Developer Tools – By Rico Mariani2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-08-21
- WASM+SQLite for Web Products2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-19
- Hotspots, Premature Optimization, Hoare’s Maxim2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-30
- Basics, Simplicity, Speed, Success2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-10
- Why does Windows use /x for command line args rather than -x2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-11
What Hacker News says?
The architect who was responsible for that has a recent blog post on it: https://ricomariani.medium.com/visual-studio-why-is-there-no...
Comment linking /visual-studio-why-is-there-no-64-bit-version-yet-849abcf0e5ec
on “Visual Studio 2022”Submitted Fifty Years of Microsoft Developer Tools – By Rico Mariani as a story · 3 points
HN discussion(Meanwhile, apparently MS itself continued using SLM, the in-house source-control system which had been commercialised as MS Delta, internally until about 2000. https://wiki.c2.com/?MicrosoftDelta https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180122-00/?p=97... https://ricomariani.medium.com/super-brief-notes-on-early-so... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44255526 )
Comment linking /super-brief-notes-on-early-source-control-systems-at-microsoft-d8fce7e8db12
on “A Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution”Submitted I Approach Performance Investigations – By Rico Mariani as a story · 2 points
HN discussionVaried? You're joking they're all math This guy found sqlite to be 19x slower. https://ricomariani.medium.com/wasm-sqlite-for-web-products-...
Comment linking /wasm-sqlite-for-web-products-a86bb172f8ab
on “Zig and WASM”Submitted Fifty Years of Microsoft Developer Tools – By Rico Mariani as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Code isn't worth optimizing until it either becomes a bottleneck This is a well-known fallacy. There's no guarantee your performance problems have a single bottleneck. In fact, more often than not, your entire program is poorly thought and the only way to fix it is a full rewrite, with the associated risks. > When I was teaching, I often used this metaphor: suppose you’re writing some system, you decide that you s…
Comment linking /hotspots-premature-optimization-hoares-maxim-f87590a6c26a
on “The Great CPU Stagnation”Submitted Fifty Years of Microsoft Developer Tools – By Rico Mariani as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fifty Years of Microsoft Developer Tools as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comspec’s Microshare: Retro Networking 1980–83 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted WASM+SQLite for Web Products as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why does the Windows Ecosystem use /x for command line args rather than -x? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why does Windows use /x for command line args rather than -x as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The VC Days: So many miracles as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The C6 Days: Tools, Memory, and Bugs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software Performance Engineering: The Ideas I Keep Coming Back To as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Common Performance Tuning Advice: Some Flaws as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Approach Performance Investigations – By Rico Mariani as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Basics, Simplicity, Speed, Success as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Basics, Simplicity, Speed, Success as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Summary of performance improvements in .NET 8 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Virtual Memory, Segments, Paging and Big Pages as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I Think Rust Is the Way Forward as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Taxonomy of Performance Pitfalls as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hotspots, Premature Optimization, Hoare’s Maxim as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Great Platforms as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Windows 95: The Most Important Operating System in History as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Securing C Code – Ante Up by Rico Mariani as a story · 1 points
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