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Sam Thursfield
Personal blog · samthursfield.wordpress.comprogrammingsystems
Sam Thursfield's personal blog at samthursfield.wordpress.com covers programming and systems. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Sam Thursfield's posts, including one on limiting Firefox's CPU and memory use on Linux with cgroup quotas, which a commenter adapted for Slack. Another comment in an Autotools thread is nearby.
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.
I'm a software developer, teacher and musician. I live in Galicia, Spain. I work at Codethink as a software developer. Some other things I've done: I mentored open source interns with Google Summer of Code and Outreachy, in 2021 and 2023/24 I taught English at a language academy in Santiago de Compo
What Hacker News says?
After some failed attempts, I gave up, copy-pasted and mangled what Sam Thursfield made for Firefox, substituting Slack where applicable and uncommenting the CPU quota: https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2015/05/07/running-firef...
Comment linking /2015/05/07/running-firefox-in-a-cgroup-using-systemd/
on “Where’s all my CPU and memory gone? The answer: Slack”Submitted Bollock to GitHub as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCMake seems more difficult for the person building the software. I'm familiar with autoconf's configure options like --prefix and variables like CXXFLAGS, and if not I can see a reasonably short listing and explanation of them with `./configure --help`, and that list often includes other --enable-foo like options the project defined. CMake, on the other hand, does not (at least for the projects I've run into?) honor…
Comment linking /2015/11/21/cmake-dependencies-between-targets-and-files-and-custom-commands/
on “Introduction to the Autotools (2012)”Submitted State of screen reading reading on desktop Linux as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tracker 3.0: How did we get here? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linux screen reading, part 2: looking at Coqui TTS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gnome Tracker 3.0: Where do we go from here? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion