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Around IT in 256 seconds
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Around IT in 256 seconds is a personal blog at nurkiewicz.com about programming. Since 2014, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Brute-forcing a seemingly simple number puzzle”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on GitHub's Haskell-based Semantic. The one comment discusses monadic I/O, explaining that bind and return organise impure code without needing to know the word 'monad'.
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.
Podcast for developers, testers, SREs… and their managers. I explain complex and convoluted technologies in a clear way, avoiding buzzwords and hype. Never longer than 4 minutes and 16 seconds.
Most-linked posts?
- Brute-forcing a seemingly simple number puzzle3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-10-03
What Hacker News says?
Note: The approach of structuring the interactions with the IO type with the functions ( bindIO :: IO a -> (a -> IO b) -> IO b ) and ( returnIO :: a -> IO a ) is still using the abstract idea of monads to organize the impure code and make it ergonomic to work with, so "monadic I/O" or "monadic state" aren't entirely misnomers. The thing I wanted to emphasize is that you don't need to know the word "monad" or underst…
Comment linking /2016/06/functor-and-monad-examples-in-plain-java.html
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