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Tom Smykowski
Personal blog · tomaszs2.medium.comprogrammingai
Tom Smykowski's personal blog at tomaszs2.medium.com covers programming and ai. Since 2020, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 68 times, most often “How Shopify handled 1.27M req/s during Black Friday/Cyber Monday?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these Medium posts on language and runtime performance, including Rosetta 2, Rust 1.64, Ruby 3.2 and Go 1.20. Commenters cite them as sources and do not comment on the writing itself.
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?
- How Shopify handled 1.27M req/s during Black Friday/Cyber Monday?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-12-04
- How Rust 1.64 became faster on Windows2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-23
- Go 1.20 Released – It’s Like Ayrton Senna Again2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-01
- Ruby 3.2.0 Is from Another Dimension2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-04
What Hacker News says?
There is an obvious internal conflict of interest in Google. Donation based app being banned are a result of that conflict of interest. But this is just a tip of an iceberg. While sometimes Google does something to patch the issue, it can not on itself fix it. Because it is caused by a core flaw of the company business model. It supports two competing platforms where only one earns money and gives control. It render…
Comment linking /ups-we-broke-the-web-again-sorry-4f904913dd4e
on “FOSS app removed from the Play Store for linking to the project's website”Submitted How Rust 1.64 became faster on Windows as a story · 177 points
HN discussionhttps://tomaszs2.medium.com/how-rust-1-64-became-10-20-faste... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33306945
Comment linking /how-rust-1-64-became-10-20-faster-on-windows-3a8bb5e81d70
on “Why is Rosetta 2 fast?”Submitted Why do big companies ask unrealistic software engineering interview questions? as a story · 41 points
HN discussionparticular improvements that come closer to C are related to string operations and regex https://tomaszs2.medium.com/ruby-3-2-0-is-from-another-dimen... here are some benchmarks from 2019 (ruby 2.5) related to string and regex operations. already certain operations were faster in ruby than C or go, particularly on longer strings. http://jultika.oulu.fi/files/nbnfioulu-202001201035.pdf
Comment linking /ruby-3-2-0-is-from-another-dimension-5249e3186ec9
on “Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails”Submitted What's something difficult programmers make look easy? as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSomeone blogged about it in a bit more detail: https://tomaszs2.medium.com/%EF%B8%8F-go-1-20-released-its-l...
Comment linking /%EF%B8%8F-go-1-20-released-its-like-ayrton-senna-again-9687049d2b62
on “Go 1.20 released”Submitted Show HN: I wrote an article explaining why CSS should handle sound as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLack of abstraction is also expensive: try writing something large in assembly. I'd say that lack of a language / system of notions adequate to the subject area is expensive. The desire to describe things in a way that's efficient for a particular class of problems leads to invention of various frameworks. Say, Rails makes you hugely productive at solving a particular type of problems (see [Shopify]), though it's le…
Comment linking /how-shopify-handled-1-27-million-requests-s-during-black-friday-cyber-monday-8a4b1d0dd1f9
on “Abstraction Is Expensive”Submitted How can programmers be lazy if programming is hard? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOpenAI tries to set a precedence for default approval for crawling and training AIs with copyrighted content. Compared to search crawling it doesn't proove to offer anything in return More: https://tomaszs2.medium.com/ai-may-pirate-music-and-movies-1...
Comment linking /ai-may-pirate-music-and-movies-1e931402bd20
on “26% of the top websites are now blocking GPTBot”Submitted Do pro software developers memorize stuff? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSome highlights: https://tomaszs2.medium.com/7-surprising-coding-facts-reveal...
Comment linking /7-surprising-coding-facts-revealed-by-jetbrains-2023-survey-473d1d78860e
on “JetBrains Developer Survey 2023 Released”Submitted The last episode of Java open source projects in this year as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI can recommend my article on Medium that helped a lot of people in your situation: https://tomaszs2.medium.com/how-to-learn-programming-from-sc... Moreover I think the most important thing to learn coding is actually not learn it. Coding is only a tool, and what you really, and only thing you need is enthusiasm for it. With all available contradictory statements people share about how to learn how to code, you can…
Comment linking /how-to-learn-programming-from-scra-4a0da7ec8184
on “I don't know. How should I start coding”Submitted Treat the <b> tag as companies treat programmers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSpeed analysis: https://tomaszs2.medium.com/vite-5-released-builds-2-11-fast...
Comment linking /vite-5-released-builds-2-11-faster-570bbd22647d?sk=a01b5e0d4f2ae824532aad03bd252125
on “Vite 5 released, builds 2-10% faster”Submitted Appflowy proves Rust is a great language to build end user apps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCSS nesting won't require ampersand. The work is in progress https://tomaszs2.medium.com/css-nesting-without-ampersand-is...
Comment linking /css-nesting-without-ampersand-is-coming-208a138f569e
on “CSS nesting won't require an ampersand (&) character”Submitted Top Insights from Cloudflare Radar 2023 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSeems like JetBrains Rider will take everyone onboard if VSC won't catch up fast https://tomaszs2.medium.com/microsofts-phasing-out-visual-st...
Comment linking /microsofts-phasing-out-visual-studio-for-macos-force-moves-developers-to-visual-studio-code-16182121f609
on “What's Happening to Visual Studio for Mac?”Submitted The latest Kotlin 1.9.20 improves performance when working with objects as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHave you seen the new Björn Staal animation? Here's how it's done https://tomaszs2.medium.com/how-to-make-bj%C3%B6rn-staal-lik...
Comment linking /how-to-make-bj%C3%B6rn-staal-like-animations-0b52df7f4054
on “Björn Staal Animation Proof of Concept”Submitted What's your experience with zero gravity office chairs? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMy summary https://tomaszs2.medium.com/vmware-released-spring-shell-3-2...
Comment linking /vmware-released-spring-shell-3-2-0-m3-build-terminal-apps-in-java-16e746c841af
on “Spring Shell 3.2.0-M3 Released”Submitted Java 21 JDK Prepares Developers for Permission Based Instrumentation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou don't have to visit my article, the main release note is linked in the main topic. My article is available here: https://tomaszs2.medium.com/net-8-standalone-net-apps-now-50...
Comment linking /net-8-standalone-net-apps-now-50-smaller-on-linux-861fde887415
on “.NET 8 Standalone 50% Smaller On Linux”Submitted Vue 3.3.6 Faster Thanks to WeakMaps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou can find summary of the release in my article: https://tomaszs2.medium.com/net-8-standalone-net-apps-now-50...
Comment linking /net-8-standalone-net-apps-now-50-smaller-on-linux-861fde887415
on “.NET 8 Standalone 50% Smaller On Linux”Submitted Angular 17 will migrate control flow automatically as a story · 2 points
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