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Cogs and Levers
Personal blog · tuttlem.github.ioprogrammingsystems
Cogs and Levers is a personal blog at tuttlem.github.io about programming and systems. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One HN comment links this blog in a thread on the state of Python type hints. The comment argues about trade-offs in language choice and does not judge the writing itself.
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.
A place for thoughts, ideas, tutorials and bookmarks. My brain can only hold so much, you know.
What Hacker News says?
> Unless there is a massive ecosystem that you need to take advantage of (for example javascript), in 2018 greenfield development should probably be in a statically typed language. I find this sort of generalizations off-putting. It is all about trade offs. Types can be very useful. There are whole categories of errors that are avoided by types. And yet, in many cases they are a productivity drain. Time is often bet…
Comment linking /2013/01/04/recursive-data-structures-in-haskell.html
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