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GeePawHill.org
Personal blog · geepawhill.orgprogrammingcareer
GeePawHill.org is a personal blog at geepawhill.org about programming and career. Since 2018, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on software development practice, such as taking many small steps (the Mikado method) and test-driven development. Commenters cite the posts and a video by the author rather than praising the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2018/04/14/tdd-the-lump-of-coding-fallacy/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-23
What Hacker News says?
There are lots of other benefits to many more much smaller steps as well as safety https://www.geepawhill.org/2021/11/16/mmmss-the-intrinsic-be...
Comment linking /2021/11/16/mmmss-the-intrinsic-benefit-of-steps/
on “A Plea for More Mikado”Submitted On Not Knowing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI put together a reading list of the best writing on automated testing I know. Most of this is agnostic wrt the language you use, though of course examples are written in a language. ## Monographs Test Driven Development By Example (Kent Beck) Unit Testing: Principles, Practices, and Patterns (Vladimir Khorikov) The Art of Unit Testing 2nd ed (Roy Osherove) Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Michael Feathers) ##…
Comment linking /2018/04/14/tdd-the-lump-of-coding-fallacy/
on “Ask HN: Any good software testing resources?”Submitted Estimating: Stop Trying Harder as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTDD is hard to learn and it does ask us to type in more code so the benefit is not immediately obvious. Most of us do not spend all day just typing in the new code, there is a lot more to it: reading existing code, deciding how new code will fit in, running new code, debugging etc. I've found TDD means I spend less time on all that other stuff. GeePaw Hill made a nice video where he talks about this as "The Lump Of…
Comment linking /2018/04/14/tdd-the-lump-of-coding-fallacy/
on “Ask HN: If TDD is so great, why is it so uncommon in the industry?”Submitted On (Internal) Software Quality and “The Correlation Principle” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted TDD and the Lump of Coding Fallacy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Underplayed premises of TDD as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Making-App UI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Humans and Mistakes as a story · 1 points
HN discussion