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Erik Bruchez
Personal blog · blog.bruchez.name · on HN as ebruchezprogramming
Erik Bruchez writes Erik’s Ponderings, a personal blog at blog.bruchez.name about programming. Since 2012, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Scala's CanBuildFrom explained”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts cover the differences between new grad and senior developer priorities, such as optimizing asymptotic complexity versus ease of understanding. Comments here do not discuss the blog's writing.
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.
Erik’s blog, essays, and other content.
Most-linked posts?
- Scala's CanBuildFrom explained2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-08-22
- Deconstructing a Scala feature: Generalized type constraints (without a PhD)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-24
What Hacker News says?
I understand this as phenomenon as the new grad and the senior developer are optimizing for different things. The new grad is focused solely on the asymptotic complexity of the code. It doesn't matter how slow or how complicated it is in practice, they are solely focused on using the fastest data structure asymptotically. The senior developer optimizes a different set of criteria: 1) How hard is it to understand the…
Comment linking /2013/02/mapmap-vs-mapmapvalues.html
on “New Grad vs. Senior Dev”Submitted The IBM Magnetic Tape Selectric Composer as a story · 56 points
HN discussionPlease don't confuse the novices. A console is either a special kernel device or a UI subsystem; a terminal is a physical piece of kit; and a terminal emulator is an application that runs on a general purpose computer that emulates one of the aforementioned pieces of kit. * https://jdebp.uk/FGA/tui-console-and-terminal-paradigms.html * https://jdebp.uk/Softwares/nosh/guide/commands/freebsd-conso... * https://jdebp.u…
Comment linking /posts/televideo-912-terminal-1/
on “Kitty – GPU based terminal emulator”Submitted Scala on Tessel 2 via Scala.js as a story · 31 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scala's CanBuildFrom explained as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generalized type constraints in Scala (without a PhD) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting to know CanBuildFrom (without a PhD) (2012) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deconstructing a Scala feature: Generalized type constraints (without a PhD) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
