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Thraxil
Personal blog · thraxil.org/users/anders/postsprogramming
Thraxil is a personal blog at thraxil.org about programming. Since 2007, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only a bare link to a post on implementing the Y combinator in JavaScript, shared in a thread about the Y combinator in Arc and Java. The linked writing covers Y combinator implementations.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Y combinator in JavaScript: http://thraxil.org/users/anders/posts/2008/09/15/My-Own-Java...
Comment linking /users/anders/posts/2008/09/15/My-Own-Javascript-Y-Combinator/
on “The Y Combinator in Arc and Java”Submitted A Boggling Return to C as a story · 162 points
HN discussionSenior Programmer at Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning. Mostly backend and devopsy stuff. Side projects: * content-addressed storage cluster with a REST interface: https://github.com/thraxil/cask/ * a circuit-breaker TCP proxy: https://github.com/thraxil/cbp * cyclomatic complexity analyzer for Go: https://github.com/thraxil/cyclo * python constraint solver: https://github.com/thraxil/constraint *…
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on “Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?”Submitted A Simple Programming Puzzle Seen Through Three Different Lenses (power of Ruby, Python) as a story · 20 points
HN discussionI'm constantly amazed at how poorly Wordpress is able to perform. 2.5GB virtual server with a cache in front of it and it went down? My blog is a Django app running on a 512MB Rackspace VM with a basic Apache, mod_wsgi, and Postgres setup. I have a dozen low traffic applications all running on the same server alongside it. I have zero caching set up so every hit is doing the full process of querying the database and…
Comment linking /users/anders/posts/2012/06/02/How-Django-deals-with-a-Hacker-News-frontpaging/
on “Is Your Site Hacker News Ready?”Submitted On to Elixir as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHere's a post I put up just a few weeks ago showing how a completely dynamically generated blog with zero caching or performance tuning handles the traffic from ending up on the front page of HN, being served off the free tier of Fly.io: https://thraxil.org/users/anders/posts/2023/08/19/hn-traffic It's Phoenix in my case, but I've had a dynamic blog with Django for a long time and it's not massively different in ter…
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on “Building a Blog in Django”Submitted Subprocess Hanging: PIPE is your enemy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://thraxil.org/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”If that's your thing, I just wrote a long blog post on using Make with Django: https://thraxil.org/users/anders/posts/2016/03/03/Using-Make...
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on “Bash aliases for Django”Shameless self-promotion, but my own post on Ratchets from a few years back: https://thraxil.org/users/anders/posts/2022/11/26/Ratchet/ Similar basic idea, slightly different take.
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on “Ratchets in Software Development”Other: Antisocial ( https://github.com/thraxil/antisocial/ ), which I wrote the weekend after hearing about Reader shutting down. I like it much better than Reader, but it's extremely opinionated, so it will probably only ever work well for me. I wrote more about the how and why back here: http://thraxil.org/users/anders/posts/2013/03/31/My-History-...
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on “Poll: RIP Google Reader. Which RSS solution do you use nowadays?”