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Timo Tijhof

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Timo Tijhof's personal blog at timotijhof.net covers web, programming and data. Since 2020, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “An Internet of PHP”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-14, and you can follow it by feed.

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9mentions?
9HN people?
2020–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2023

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Timo Tijhof's posts on browser adoption stats and a Go profiling write-up where a Print call changed a function's speed. A Wikipedia query he wrote is also mentioned.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. An Internet of PHP
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-09-06
  2. Browser Adoption Rates
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-02-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. Can you link to the source for your stats? I'm not finding anything to corroborate that -- I'm seeing stats suggesting things like 90% of Chrome users are on the newest version after two weeks: https://timotijhof.net/posts/2023/browser-adoption/ And Stat Counter shows that the current version of Chrome utterly dominates in any given month: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-version-market-share/desk... The glacial a…

    Comment linking /posts/2023/browser-adoption/

    on “CSS Grid Lanes”
  2. Submitted An Internet of PHP as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Timo Tijhof ( https://timotijhof.net/ ) wrote this query.

    Comment linking /

    on “List of Wikipedia articles about persons who have died of Covid”
  4. Submitted How to protect yourself from NPM (2019) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. > but who are these people who are so comfortable with disassembling a high level language binary, reading assembly, and then making statements about branch prediction and other such low level esoterica? i don't see any assembly here. the analysis is done by using a profiler. a very common tool available for most programming languages. https://timotijhof.net/wp-content/uploads/2020_profiling_fig...

    Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2020_profiling_figure1_flamegraph_intro.png

    on “Print(“lol”) doubled the speed of my Go function”
  6. Submitted An Internet of PHP as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted An Internet of PHP as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Browser Adoption Rates as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Browser Adoption Rates as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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