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Alex Kudlick
Personal blog · alexkudlick.com/blogprogrammingwriting
Alex Kudlick's personal blog at alexkudlick.com covers programming and writing. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “What the Four Color Theorem Can Teach Us About Writing Software”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment, which discusses the post's style: a "What X can teach us about Y" historical-analogy piece, a tradition it compares to Economist pieces. Readers mainly note the style rather than praise or fault the post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I am a software engineer, writer, and father. Professionally, I specialize in building applications to derive value from data and managing the complexity of distributed systems.
Most-linked posts?
- What the Four Color Theorem Can Teach Us About Writing Software2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-11
What Hacker News says?
Perhaps this is a question of taste. The style of piece I mean is 'aped' by the article is "What X can teach us about Y". I've read some really good pieces by The Economist in this tradition, that examine historical case studies for modern insights. Some other examples from HN in that style. I don't think these are particularly brilliant, but I don't think they're fatally flawed. I found that their analogy explained…
Comment linking /blog/what-the-four-color-theorem-can-teach-us-about-writing-software/
on “A Pirate's Take on Strategy vs. Tactics”Submitted What the Four Color Theorem Can Teach Us About Writing Software as a story · 201 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Modular Java Applications with Gradle as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I'm Learning About: React Component Communication as a story · 2 points
HN discussion