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Janet A. Carr

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Janet A. Carr's personal blog at blog.janetacarr.com covers programming. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Clojure Transducers: Your Composable Data Pipelines”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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24mentions?
4HN people?
2022–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 12 in 2023

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's Clojure posts on functional programming ideas such as transducers, one of which a commenter found did not really demystify the topic.

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.

By Janet A. Carr

Most-linked posts?

  1. Clojure Transducers: Your Composable Data Pipelines
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-03-30
  2. How Clojure Works for You
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-06
  3. Thoughts on ClojureScript and BigDecimal
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-26

What Hacker News says?

  1. https://blog.janetacarr.com I write a lot about Clojure and software developer with Clojure. I only have like a dozen posts though, but people seem to like them (mostly).

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”
  2. Submitted Clojure needs a Rails as a story · 252 points

    HN discussion
  3. Aha, this one i suppose (your blog does not have a browseable index, although it does have search): https://blog.janetacarr.com/clojure-transducers-your-composa... Personally, i would say that a blog post which starts "We can think of a transducer as a context-independent transformation composed of, say, many reducers" and then starts adding parentheses is not really demystifying. But perhaps i am not the target aud…

    Comment linking /clojure-transducers-your-composable-big-data-pipelines/

    on “Mindset Shifts for Functional Programming”
  4. Submitted A simple core.async job system in Clojure as a story · 127 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Clojure's typing “problem” as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Fix your Clojure code: Clojure comes with design patterns (Part 1) as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted How Clojure Works for You as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Building a Clojure CI/CD Pipeline of Certain Doom as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Fix your Clojure code: Clojure comes with design patterns (Part 2) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Write Clojure for Other Developers as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted How to Hire Clojure Developers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Clojure Transducers: Your Composable Data Pipelines as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted ClojureScript and BigDecimal is a yak barbershop as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Thoughts on ClojureScript and BigDecimal as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted WTF is Clojure inlining anyway as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Clojure Transducers: Your Composable Data Pipelines as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Thriving in the dynamically type-checked hell scape of Clojure as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Building an Event-Driven Architecture in Clojure (Part 1) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Ports and Adapters Architecture for the Functional Programmer (With Clojure) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Mindset Shifts for Functional Programming as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted How to Build Model-View-Controller in Clojure as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted A Primer on Clojure Macros as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Clojure Frameworks: Opinions are features not bugs as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted How Clojure Works for You as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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