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Gary Woodfine's personal blog at garywoodfine.com covers programming and career. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2018–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2018

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Why HN links it

HN commenters cite this post's code-quality advice, such as avoiding duplicated code, using meaningful variable names, and keeping functions short with fewer parameters, in a thread on code quality for businesses.

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.

Backend software developer, integrator, engineer & solution architect well versed in delivering applications utilizing cloud architectures.

What Hacker News says?

  1. What does it mean for a novel to be of high quality? It's not easy to define and it's somewhat subjective, but equally there are definitely things that are not acceptable. Some things that can help move towards higher quality code: - avoid duplicated code - especially when it's similar but subtly different - variable names that mean something useful - lower code nesting - shorter functions - fewer parameters Many of…

    Comment linking /what-is-clean-code/

    on “Code quality: a concern for businesses, bottom lines, and empathetic programmers”
  2. Submitted You are not a DevOps Engineer as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Book Review: Java by Comparison as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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