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Romeda
Personal blog · romeda.org/blogprogrammingweb
Romeda is a personal blog at romeda.org about programming and web. Since 2008, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Erlang-like Hot Code Loading in Node.js”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on running JavaScript outside the browser, including a 2010 note on hot code loading in Node.js, and a 2008 post on Twitter's scaling. HN commenters link them as background only, with no comment on the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Erlang-like Hot Code Loading in Node.js2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-02-01
What Hacker News says?
Hot code loading in NodeJS has been implemented many times, see e.g.: http://romeda.org/blog/2010/01/hot-code-loading-in-nodejs.ht...
Comment linking /blog/2010/01/hot-code-loading-in-nodejs.html
on “JavaScript: It’s Not Just for Browsers Any More”Submitted Erlang-like Hot Code Loading in Node.js as a story · 57 points
HN discussionThe meat in the comments of Blaine Cook's blog entry: http://romeda.org/blog/2008/05/scalability.html#140141155247... "Scaling Twitter as a messaging platform is pretty easy. See Mickaël Rémond's post on the subject. Scaling the archival, and massive infrastructure concerns (think billions of authenticated polling requests per month) are not, no matter what platform you're on. Particularly when you need to take comp…
Comment linking /blog/2008/05/scalability.html
on “Why Can't Twitter Scale? Blaine Cook Tries To Explain”Submitted RePublish : Pure-JavaScript ePub Reader as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hot Code Loading in Node.js as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Solving The Web's Identity Crisis as a story · 1 points
HN discussion