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the spatula
Personal blog · thespatula.ioprogrammingsystems
the spatula is a personal blog at thespatula.io about programming and systems. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Io_uring Echo Server”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked mainly as a portfolio in job-seeking threads, and for the author's notes on building Rust io_uring bindings and an echo server on them. The comments do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
the spatula
Most-linked posts?
- Io_uring Echo Server2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-02
What Hacker News says?
Location: Taipei, Taiwan Remote: Yes, but the office is good as well. Willing to relocate: Yes. Technologies: I have been primarily working in TypeScript with Node, Svelte and Vue recently, but have experience with Python, Rust, and C. Resume: https://thespatula.io/resume/resume-software-reworked.html Site: https://www.thespatula.io & repo: https://github.com/kilroyjones/ Despite being overseas, my hours are flexibl…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024)”Submitted Io_uring Echo Server as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK Location: Taipei Looking for remote or local (US Citizen) Experienced with: JavaScript/Typescript (Node, Express), Svelte/SvelteKit, Rust, Python (Flask, FastAPI) Open to fullstack work, technical writing and any sort of gig work. Site: https://www.thespatula.io/project-list/
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2024)”Submitted Wasabi, Why? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI've been playing with io_uring for the last month or so, just for fun. I'm working on building an async runtime from scratch on top of it. I've been documenting (think of them more as notes to myself) the process thus far: Creating bindings to io_uring (just to see the process): https://www.thespatula.io/rust/rust_io_uring_bindings/ Writing an echo server using those bindings: https://www.thespatula.io/rust/rust_io…
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on “What Is Io_uring?”Submitted The Future of Experience as a story · 1 points
HN discussion