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Jeremy Mikkola
Personal blog · jeremymikkola.com/posts · on HN as piinbinaryprogrammingcareer
Jeremy Mikkola's personal blog at jeremymikkola.com covers programming and career. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “Writing Useful Comments in Code”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a follow-up to an earlier Git article on HN. Judging by its URL, the linked post covers moving commits between branches. No comment judges the writing itself.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Writing Useful Comments in Code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-22
What Hacker News says?
I wrote a bit about how to inter types here: http://jeremymikkola.com/posts/2018_03_25_understanding_algo... Two things I see missing from your code: A current substitution and a unification function. This paper might also be helpful to read: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.65....
Comment linking /posts/2018_03_25_understanding_algorithm_w.html
on “Compiler basics: Lisp to Assembly”Submitted Rules for Autocomplete as a story · 473 points
HN discussionThe same applies to tech debt: https://jeremymikkola.com/posts/2022_01_29_tech_debt_gets_wo... (Yes there's a typo in the url. It bugs me, too) prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30128627
Comment linking /posts/2022_01_29_tech_debt_gets_worse_before_it_gets_beffer.html
on “Software design gets worse before it gets better”Submitted Warming up to Go as a story · 155 points
HN discussionI learned that from a different article posted here last week :) https://jeremymikkola.com/posts/2017_07_15_move_commits_betw...
Comment linking /posts/2017_07_15_move_commits_between_git_repos.html
on “Using Git Offline”Submitted Tech debt gets worse before it gets better as a story · 138 points
HN discussionThe way I think about it is that comments needs to provide information that is both new and useful, where "new" and "useful" depend on the audience http://jeremymikkola.com/posts/2021_03_21_useful_comments.ht...
Comment linking /posts/2021_03_21_useful_comments.html
on “On Comments in Code”Submitted Golang: Know Your 'Nil' as a story · 134 points
HN discussionI've written a few notes about problem solving [0] that you might also find useful [0] https://jeremymikkola.com/posts/2022_01_01_a_few_notes_on_pr...
Comment linking /posts/2022_01_01_a_few_notes_on_problem_solving.html
on “Practical guide to solving hard problems”Submitted How to Write Readable Code as a story · 93 points
HN discussionIn case anyone finds it useful, I wrote an explanation of how type inference with let-polymorphism works: http://jeremymikkola.com/posts/2018_03_25_understanding_algo...
Comment linking /posts/2018_03_25_understanding_algorithm_w.html
on “Type inference”Submitted Moving Git commits between repos (2017) as a story · 41 points
HN discussionI agree: https://jeremymikkola.com/posts/2021_10_11_weather_and_estim...
Comment linking /posts/2021_10_11_weather_and_estimates.html
on “Pushing devs for lower estimates is like asking a meteorologist for sunshine”Submitted A UI might not make it easier as a story · 25 points
HN discussionhttp://jeremymikkola.com
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted The Problem with Slow Tools as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Few Notes on Problem Solving as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing Useful Comments in Code as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Typing Haskell in Haskell, Explained as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to move commits between Git repos as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Warming up to Go as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software Shouldn't Flow Away (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Makes Developers Productive? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software Shouldn't Flow Away as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scary Logic as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why software development is hard as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Problem with Null as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding Algorithm W as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding nil in Go as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Thoughts as a story · 1 points
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