531–540 of 1001 posts
I really enjoy writing especially to work on my english and how i express my thoughts.
I try to write at least one post a month but im usually pretty busy with work.
My top 3 favorite posts are:
linux guide for powerusers https://xnacly.me/posts/2022/linux-for-powerusers/
Rsa and python https://xnacly.me/posts/2023/rsa/
Lexical analysis of Markdown in Go https://xnacly.me/posts/2023/lexer-markdown/
Sharing a few posts that have resonated at hn, and highlighting the discussion (which I've found just as interesting—if not more so—as writing the post):
https://herbertlui.net/dont-think-to-write-write-to-think/ hn thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32628196
https://herbertlui.net/bill-watterson-picasso-and-hn-on-self... hn thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32124964
https://herbertlui.net/for-productivity-geeks-futility-is-a-... hn thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31941472
https://herbertlui.net/conference-talk-blog-post-transcribe/ hn thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31914395
https://herbertlui.net/quitting-art-careers/ hn thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34857488
The posts that made it to the top of HN (that I can recall at this moment)
35 Million Hot Dogs: Benchmarking Caddy vs. Nginx (https://blog.tjll.net/reverse-proxy-hot-dog-eating-contest-c...)
SSH Kung Fu (https://blog.tjll.net/ssh-kung-fu/)
Building My Ideal Router for $50 (https://blog.tjll.net/building-my-perfect-router/)
I've been using nix/nixos a lot lately and will probably end up publishing more in that general area of interest. That and my excessively-overengineered homelab.
You may remember me from:
Acropaylypse: https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/exploiting-acropalypse...
Netflix on Asahi: https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/netflix-on-asahi.html
Hello, PNG!: https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/hello-png.html
Only 3 articles so far this year, but there's an RSS feed, and I plan to write more soon.
It used to be a separate website, but since becoming a principal investigator and starting my own group, I have integrated it into the group website. I mostly write about academic research/teaching and open-source software/principles/evangelization.
One of the posts from last year https://gaseri.org/en/blog/2022-02-24-dont-use-rar/ got a fairly nice traction on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30465933
My personal favorite overall is the post from 2015 https://gaseri.org/en/blog/2015-09-14-what-is-the-price-of-o... where I wrote about proprietary and open-source software in computational chemistry by debunking an article from American Chemical Society's Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
An eclectic combination of a long-running (but infrequent) blog, technical projects, and academic papers.
Here are some of my posts which have been well received:
- https://codeconfessions.substack.com/p/creating-chatgpt-plug... : It takes you through a tutorial showing how to use the function call feature to build your own ChatGPT with plugins
- https://codeconfessions.substack.com/p/exploring-deepminds-a... - This explains the results of the AlphaDev paper from DeepMind
- https://codeconfessions.substack.com/p/mojo-the-future-of-ai... - This gives an introduction to the Mojo programming language
- https://codeconfessions.substack.com/p/will-ai-replace-progr... - This one is my personal take on whether programming jobs are in danger becaue of AI or not.
I try to develop an habit of writing, unsuccessfully.
Bursts of very infrequent posts about web, game dev, personal projects, and tools or lessons learned.