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Caolan McMahon

caolan.uk · Personal blog · on HN since 2020

Caolan McMahon, a programmer, writes about software design, performance, collaborative editing, event ordering, and small markup tools.

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3 months agolast shared
2020people per year2026

Most-shared posts

  1. 1
    Servers with Personality
    3 people · 7 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
  2. 2
    A Speed Limit for Computers
    3 people · 5 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
  3. 3
    Serving Markdown Direct from Apache
    2 people · 35 points · first shared 2022 · 1 comments on HN
  4. 4
    Google's proposal to split the JavaScript standard
    2 people · 6 points · first shared 2024 · 2 comments on HN
  5. 5
    A Collaborative Text Editor
    2 people · 4 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
  6. 6
    Complex Iterators Are Slow
    1 people · 24 points · first shared 2025 · 9 comments on HN
  7. 7
    Time Disorder: Don't order events by timestamp
    1 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
  8. 8
    Show HN: A simple markup language based on Gemtext
    1 people · 1 points · first shared 2024 · 1 comments on HN
  9. 9
    The Story of DOM Patch
    1 people · 1 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
  10. 10

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