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eliassonon .NET Blazor

I used Blazor Server to build a hobby project of mine [1] and must say I am pleasantly surprised. Not having to build a separate client and duplicating code and models is really nice. I use my project daily and it is surprisingly fast to use, and the dropped connection does not bother me too much.

I would not recommend using it for anything other than smaller applications where users are expected to have a steady connection though. But for smaller applications it’s a nice alternative, cutting some of the effort required to get an application out there.

[1] https://github.com/eliasson/quarter

eliassonon Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

I have this hobby project for personal time tracking I work on from time to time. It's usable enough for my daily use so motivation has dropped since that point.

https://github.com/eliasson/quarter

eliassonon Symbian OS Kernel (2010)

In some way they did. UIQ was a subsidary owned by Symbian that made the UI stack for Sony Ericssons P800, P900 and a few Motorola devices.

eliassonon The Insane Innovation of TI Calculator Hobbyists

No, these calculators were fairly popular in Sweden as well (at least during the late 90s).

eliassonon Show HN: Torrentinim – low memory-footprint, API-only torrent search engine

Not a book but I wrote an article about implementing the basics of a BitTorrent client in Python a few years ago. Maybe you'll find that useful. https://markuseliasson.se/article/bittorrent-in-python/

eliassonon Multi-Paradigm Languages

This is the reason why I am exited about GraalVM and its support for polyglot programming[1] (via the Truffle framework).

[1] https://www.graalvm.org/reference-manual/polyglot-programmin...

eliassonon Emulating the Original Gameboy’s CPU

Anyone interested in how the Game Boy works should watch "The Ultimate Game Boy Talk" by Michael Steil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyzD8pNlpwI

eliassonon Ask HN: What tools do you use for note-taking, progress tracking and TODO lists?

> ...it's well made and I want it to stick around.

Fully agree. And for me personally I think €15.99 is cheap - I use it way more than any of the video games I keep buying.

eliassonon 5M Bid request/s, 2ms max response time – The Road to Damascus

> (scala? That's another story for another day)

This makes me curious - was it the language or the runtime characteristics?

eliassonon The magic of asyncio explained

A few years ago I wrote an BitTorrent client in Python 3.5 to get to know asyncio better.

Maybe those blogposts are still of use to somebody:

- http://markuseliasson.se/article/introduction-to-asyncio/

- http://markuseliasson.se/article/bittorrent-in-python/