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tclementdev
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tclementdev is a personal blog at tclementdev.com about programming and systems. Since 2018, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “What Went Wrong with the Libdispatch”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- What Went Wrong with the Libdispatch4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-11-23
- TimeMachineEditor (Easy way to change your backup schedule)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-02-23
What Hacker News says?
It's a great library for a lot of things. When originally introduced it was also heavily oversold by Apple as a magic bullet for concurrency. Here's one account: https://tclementdev.com/posts/what_went_wrong_with_the_libdi...
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on “A former Uber engineer's disaster story”Submitted What Went Wrong with the Libdispatch as a story · 47 points
HN discussionA good critique of libdispatch is here: https://tclementdev.com/posts/what_went_wrong_with_the_libdi... I think the main issue with GCD is the potential for deadlocks in serial queues (which it doesn’t really help you with), and the related problem of thread explosion in concurrent queues. Actors make protecting shared mutable state really easy, solving a big chunk of the reason you’d want to use semaphores and seri…
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on “Chris Lattner left Swift core team”Submitted What Went Wrong with the Libdispatch (2020) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis is not gonna end well: https://tclementdev.com/posts/what_went_wrong_with_the_libdi...
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on “Swift Evolution: Actors”Submitted What is not so great about SwiftUI as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI use TM as well. I got an app ( https://tclementdev.com/timemachineeditor/ ) that will manually trigger TM backups whenever the machine is idle. Seems to work a lot better than the Apple automatic or timed backups.
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on “My SSD suddenly died. I only lost 10 minutes of data, thanks to ZFS”Submitted [Longtime Mac user] Finally trying Linux as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted TimeMachineEditor as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted TimeMachineEditor (Easy way to change your backup schedule) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is not so great about SwiftUI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is not so great about SwiftUI as a story · 1 points
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