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GeertVL··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
It is down. It seems.
GeertVL··on Understanding the Go Runtime: The Scheduler
This is an excellent idea as a blog. Kudos!
GeertVL··on Cloudflare was down
Linkedin -> the same
GeertVL··on Modern C
The best book for me was the King book. Clear. Thorough. And most importantly the order of the chapter topics. And definitely do the projects to practice.
GeertVL··on NetBSD Code Study
Well done. It gives me inspiration to go through other codebases (Rust compiler, Go compiler, .NET Roslyn, ...)
GeertVL··on Windows Terminal Preview v0.10 Release
Any good tips and tricks on how to get the max out of Windows Terminal?
GeertVL··on A Virtual Machine
I am doing the same in Rust (a new language for me) and OCaml (known a little bit). It forces you to find different solutions and you learn new languages at the same time.

Love it. Thanks.

GeertVL··on The Depression Thing
"I want transparent discussion of mental problems in society."

Me too. I am still in the same league Zach was.

GeertVL··on Let's compile like it's 1992 (2014)
Any links to the correct downloads?
GeertVL··on Curl hearts Mozilla
You really need to listen to this podcast with Daniel on the Changelog. I love his attitude and his approach.

https://changelog.com/podcast/153

GeertVL··on Talks that changed the way I think about programming
I love this quote from Eskill's talk

"C++ is evil because it makes dumb people think they are clever."

Replace C++ with any "intelligent" framework or language.

GeertVL··on Parkinson’s disease ‘may start in gut’
Too little to late for my dad. R.I.P.
GeertVL··on How to be a wizard programmer
Any blog post on how you did it and what tools you have used?
GeertVL··on Intellij-Rust Rust Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA
did you install Racer? https://github.com/phildawes/racer
GeertVL··on Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today
The same here. I reread it already two times. Made a ton of notes.
GeertVL··on Alan Kay's reading list
Do you make any notes during reading or make some sort of resume/recapitulation when you finish a book?

Are you a paper notebook fan?

GeertVL··on Redis re-implemented in Rust
So how do you re-implement something like Redis in another language? Is it more of a translation job or do you start with splitting the concepts and try to implement it. Or take the idea and go your own way with implementing it?
GeertVL··on Using MyGet as a OneGet package source
Great service those guys provide. If you're doing .NET development you should give it a try.