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Ben Sima
Personal blog · bsima.me/clogprogrammingsystems
Ben Sima's personal blog at bsima.me covers programming and systems. Since 2017, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Robust Clojure: The best way to handle nil”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link Ben Sima's post on robust Clojure nil handling, which explains why (seq nil) and (str nil) return different values. The comment is a bare link with no judgement of the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Robust Clojure: The best way to handle nil3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-04-17
- 3 Tools I Use on Every Server2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-05-17
- How I finally learned what a “monad” is2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-06-25
What Hacker News says?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/a6qptl/why_does_se... https://bsima.me/clog/robust-clojure-nil.html
Comment linking /clog/robust-clojure-nil.html
on “#clojure: Why does (seq nil) return nil but (str nil) return “”?”Submitted Robust Clojure: The best way to handle nil as a story · 141 points
HN discussionSubmitted Robust Clojure: The best way to handle nil as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted 3 Tools I Use on Every Server as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Speedrunning ML Ops as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 3 Tools to Use on Every Server as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I finally learned what a “monad” is as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I finally learned what a “monad” is as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I finally learned what a “monad” is as a story · 1 points
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