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Colour Coding
Personal blog · colourcoding.net/blogprogramming
Colour Coding is a personal blog at colourcoding.net about programming. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Marvellous Moeb”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Blog post on the Möb variant of loops in Haskell, linked as a correction to the thread's 'Löb and Möb' title. Only a bare link is given, with no comment on 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.
Because things aren't always black and white
Most-linked posts?
- Marvellous Moeb2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-10-09
What Hacker News says?
I'll just plug my own (not as comprehensive) contribution to this meme: http://www.colourcoding.net/blog/archive/2014/10/27/design-p...
Comment linking /blog/archive/2014/10/27/design-patterns-happy-birthday-and-goodbye.aspx
on “Design Patterns in Clojure”Submitted Design Patterns: Happy Birthday and Goodbye as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIf you ignore the arities, ignore the internal state, and correctly observe the unwritten rules, yes transducers act like function composition. I looked into this here: http://www.colourcoding.net/blog/archive/2014/08/16/lets-wri... I think Rich's innovation here is extremely clever and quite subtle, but it's pretty Clojure-specific, both in terms of the problem it solves and the way it solves it.
Comment linking /blog/archive/2014/08/16/lets-write-a-transducer.aspx
on “Clojure's Transducers are as fundamental as function composition”Submitted Clojure is a GSD Language as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://colourcoding.net/2018/03/29/marvellous-moeb/ FTFY :)
Comment linking /2018/03/29/marvellous-moeb/
on “Löb and Möb: Loops in Haskell (2013)”Submitted A Beginner's Thoughts on ZeroMQ as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI wrote an article based on this one: https://colourcoding.net/2018/03/29/marvellous-moeb/ I think one thing it’s super good for is constructing cyclic graphs from flat representations: you don’t need to do cycle detection. (The example in the code, sadly, does need cycle detection and doesn’t have it. I keep meaning to write a follow-up.)
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on “Löb and möb: strange loops in Haskell (2013)”Submitted Clojure Web Stack: Server Side HTML Generation as a story · 3 points
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