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Axol's Blog
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Axol's Blog is a personal blog at theaxolot.wordpress.com about programming. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Don't Refactor Like Uncle Bob”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on code comments and refactoring, including one titled "Don't refactor like Uncle Bob". The one linking comment cites that post as a see-also alongside a point about Bob Martin's examples.
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 write about whatever comes to my mind
Most-linked posts?
- Don't Refactor Like Uncle Bob2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-12
What Hacker News says?
I wouldn't take the examples from Bob Martin as gospel, see also: "Don't refactor like Uncle Bob": https://theaxolot.wordpress.com/2024/05/08/dont-refactor-lik...
Comment linking /2024/05/08/dont-refactor-like-uncle-bob-please/
on “Maybe Comments _Should_ Explain 'What'”Submitted Don't Refactor Like Uncle Bob as a story · 89 points
HN discussionSubmitted LoC is a dumb metric for functions as a story · 61 points
HN discussionSubmitted What TDD is good for as a story · 53 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Refactor Like Uncle Bob (Second Edition) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Test Driven Development: Bad Example as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's Your Fault People Don't Like TDD as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Review of John Ousterhout's "A Philosophy of Software Design" as a story · 1 points
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