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Christian Maioli

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Christian Maioli's personal blog at chrismm.com covers programming and career. Since 2015, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 74 times, most often “Avoid these 35 habits that lead to unmaintainable code”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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74mentions?
16HN people?
2015–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 44 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link Christian Maioli's posts on Scala functional programming, such as a N-queens solution in four lines, and on reducing cognitive load in code. The comments cite these posts as support.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Christian Maioli, software engineer. Fifteen years building payments, music delivery, and hospital software. Argentina.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Avoid these 35 habits that lead to unmaintainable code
    4 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2017-05-04
  2. How to reduce the cognitive load of your code
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-03-28
  3. You Can't Do Software Estimates at All
    2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-12-26
  4. Applying neuroscience to software development
    2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-03-23
  5. Being Agile and working smart are not the same thing
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-05-26
  6. Another Kind of JavaScript Fatigue
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-07-16
  7. Writing Good Code: How to Reduce the Cognitive Load of Your Code
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-09-26
  8. JS “fatigue” is coming back to bite us
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-17
  9. How perfectly sane people can end up writing terrible code
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-28
  10. Newton’s 3 Laws of Software Craftsmanship
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. SEEKING WORK - REMOTE ONLY - based in Argentina I am a web developer with over 15 years of experience, and always looking for interesting projects to work on: small, medium or large. You might have seen my post "How to reduce the cognitive load of your code" at the top of Hacker News recently. I have a passion for learning and writing about technology, particularly software architecture, design patterns and on stayi…

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    on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2016)”
  2. Submitted Writing good code: how to reduce the cognitive load of your code as a story · 317 points

    HN discussion
  3. SEEKING WORK, Argentina, remote only I've got some free time and I'm looking for new projects or full-time work in web development. I've been developing software for over 15 years, web backend and frontend, and freelancing for 2 years. My front-end experience is in AngularJS, jQuery, Babel (ES6 & 7) and on the back-end in PHP, Java and MVC frameworks such as Spring MVC/Boot, Laravel, CodeIgniter and Symfony. I have…

    Comment linking /contact

    on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2017)”
  4. Submitted How to reduce the cognitive load of your code as a story · 304 points

    HN discussion
  5. SEEKING WORK Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: PHP, JS, Laravel, CodeIgniter, MongoDB, MySQL, Drupal, Joomla, Angular.js, jQuery, Backbone.js, React.js, Java, Spring I'm a freelance developer with a Zend PHP 5.3 certification. I'm looking for remote work, either full-time or small projects. I am a full stack developer with extensive front-end experience. I also have…

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    on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2015)”
  6. Submitted Simple Ways of Reducing the Cognitive Load in Code as a story · 281 points

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  7. While definitely great proof of: 1. The author knowing a lot of the language's functional features (permutations, mapping, zipping, filters) 2. How powerful functional programming is when solving problems I find this type of code an anti pattern of how good code should be. This solution has a high "cognitive load" imho: http://chrismm.com/blog/how-to-reduce-the-cognitive-load-of-... I'd much rather see a 15-20 line…

    Comment linking /blog/how-to-reduce-the-cognitive-load-of-your-code/

    on “N-queen puzzle in 4 lines of Scala”
  8. Submitted How to use your full brain when writing code as a story · 218 points

    HN discussion
  9. SEEKING WORK Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: PHP, JS, Laravel, CodeIgniter, Unit Testing, MongoDB, MySQL, Drupal, Joomla, Angular.js, jQuery, Backbone.js, React.js, ES6/7 (babel), Java, Spring I'm a freelance developer with a Zend PHP 5.3 certification. I'm looking for remote work, either full-time or small projects. I am a full stack developer with extensive front…

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    on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2015)”
  10. Submitted How terrible code gets written by sane people as a story · 197 points

    HN discussion
  11. Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: PHP, JS, Laravel, CodeIgniter, MongoDB, MySQL, Drupal, Joomla, Angular.js, jQuery, Backbone.js, React.js, Java, Spring I'm a freelance developer with a Zend PHP 5.3 certification. I'm looking for remote work, either full-time or small projects. I am a full stack developer with extensive front-end experience. I also have experience wr…

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    on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2015)”
  12. Submitted Project delays: why good software estimates are impossible as a story · 165 points

    HN discussion
  13. SEEKING WORK | Buenos Aires, Argentina (GMT -3) | REMOTE ONLY JS/PHP freelancer with 17 years of web dev experience, freelancer since 2014. I'm an expert in Laravel/Vue and know my way around React, NodeJS, Angular, WordPress, Drupal and CodeIgniter. Website: http://chrismm.com Email: mmchristian@gmail.com

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (April 2019)”
  14. Submitted Project delays: why good software estimates are impossible (2015) as a story · 152 points

    HN discussion
  15. SEEKING WORK Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: PHP, JS, Laravel, CodeIgniter, MongoDB, MySQL, Drupal, Joomla, Angular.js, jQuery, Backbone.js, React.js, Java, Spring I'm a freelance developer with a Zend PHP 5.3 certification. I'm looking for remote work, either full-time or small projects. I am a full stack developer with extensive front-end experience. I also have…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2015)”
  16. Submitted The other kind of JavaScript fatigue as a story · 71 points

    HN discussion
  17. Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina Remote: yes, only remote Willing to relocate: no Technologies: PHP, JS, Laravel, CodeIgniter, Unit Testing, MongoDB, MySQL, Drupal, Joomla, Angular.js, jQuery, Backbone.js, React.js, ES6/7 (babel), Java, Spring I'm a freelance developer with a Zend PHP 5.3 certification. I'm looking for remote work, either full-time or small projects. I am a full stack developer with extensive front…

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    on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2015)”
  18. Submitted What “full stack” really means to the job market as a story · 40 points

    HN discussion
  19. Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina Remote: Yes, remote only Willing to relocate: No Technologies: AngularJS, PHP, Ruby, CodeIgniter, Laravel, NodeJS, ES6/7, Babel Resume: http://chrismm.com email: mmchristian at gmail dot com

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    on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2016)”
  20. Submitted You Can't Do Software Estimates at All as a story · 34 points

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  21. Submitted The other kind of JavaScript fatigue as a story · 21 points

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  22. Submitted Avoid these 35 habits that lead to unmaintainable code as a story · 12 points

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  23. Submitted JS “fatigue” is coming back to bite us as a story · 12 points

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  24. Submitted Writing Good Code: How to Reduce the Cognitive Load of Your Code as a story · 10 points

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  25. Submitted On Writing Good Code: How to Reduce the Cognitive Load of Your Code as a story · 10 points

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  26. Submitted Why we’re going back to a tech world run by hackers as a story · 10 points

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  27. Submitted Writing Good Code: How to Reduce the Cognitive Load of Your Code as a story · 10 points

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  28. Submitted How Terrible Code Gets Written by Perfectly Sane People as a story · 9 points

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  29. Submitted Being a versatile hacker is more important than knowing frameworks as a story · 9 points

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  30. Submitted Another Kind of JavaScript Fatigue as a story · 9 points

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