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Ben Sless

Personal blog · bsless.github.ioprogramming

Ben Sless writes bsless, a personal blog at bsless.github.io about programming. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Clojure Code Smells”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
6HN people?
2020–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Ben Sless's introduction to transducers, and a video workshop version of it. One commenter says they liked the intro and recommends it to anyone interested in transducers.

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 Clojure, software development, and whatever else comes to mind.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Clojure Code Smells
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-06
  2. Transducers from the Ground Up
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. Transducers are awesome! They are so elegant. If one is interested in transducers I liked Ben Sless's intro: https://bsless.github.io/transducers-intro/ or in video "workshop form" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sC71eb9Ox0

    Comment linking /transducers-intro/

    on “Try Clojure – An interactive tutorial in the browser”
  2. Submitted Idiomatic Clojure without sacrificing performance as a story · 150 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Transducers from the Ground Up as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Clojure Code Smells as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Stress Testing Clojure Web Servers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Idiomatic Clojure: Code Smells as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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