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Jessica Kerr
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Jessica Kerr writes Jessitron, a personal blog at blog.jessitron.com about programming and career. Since 2012, 42 different Hacker News readers have linked it 64 times, most often “Property-based testing: what is it?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.
symmathecist, in the medium of code
Most-linked posts?
- Property-based testing: what is it?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-04-26
- Ultratestable Coding Style3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-06-07
- Scaling Intelligence2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-31
- Take Care of Code - More and More Code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-22
- Systems thinking about women in IT2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-02
- Hyperproductive development2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-06-25
- Tradeoffs in Coordination Among Teams2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-09
- Dependencies2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-17
What Hacker News says?
Also has a great list of other blogs, most of which are my favorites now too. https://jvns.ca/blog/2016/04/09/some-of-my-favorite-blogs/ here's a copy+pastable list: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/ http://danluu.com/ https://aphyr.com/ http://www.elidedbranches.com/ http://composition.al/blog/2015/03/31/what-isnt-a-key-value-... https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2016/03/29/0 http://blog.plover.com/aliens/dd/intro.h…
Comment linking /2015/06/ultratestable-coding-style.html
on “Ask HN: What are your favourite developer blogs?”Submitted Open Source Needs Open Source Companies as a story · 199 points
HN discussionIt's also called the law of "Uphill Analysis, Downhill Invention" which states "It is much more difficult to guess the internal structure of an entity just by observing its behavior than it is to actually create the structure that leads to that behavior." Been reusing and repeating this one quite a lot, since I saw it mentioned in one of this year's RubyConf keynotes: https://blog.jessitron.com/2019/11/05/keynote-co…
Comment linking /2019/11/05/keynote-collective-problem-solving-in-music-science-art-and-software/
on “Kernighan's Law: You are not smart enough to debug it”Submitted Layers in Software: From Data to Value as a story · 104 points
HN discussionThis is what I was referring to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickCheck http://blog.jessitron.com/2013/04/property-based-testing-wha...
Comment linking /2013/04/property-based-testing-what-is-it.html
on “Finding Compiler Bugs by Removing Dead Code”Submitted Hyperproductive development as a story · 90 points
HN discussionThat is quite fascinating. I do somewhat wonder if some of that can be lessened by using more "property based testing"[1]. Property based testing can be thought of writing tests that describe the functionality you are trying to cover. It then interpolates (not too unlike fuzzing actually) to come up with every way that might be non-compliant and then checks to ensure your hypothesis holds up. Amusingly enough, the m…
Comment linking /2013/04/property-based-testing-what-is-it.html
on “OSS-Fuzz: Five months later, and rewarding projects”Submitted Ultratestable Coding Style as a story · 83 points
HN discussionSimilarly, if Jessitron (singling her out solely because she wrote a really good blog post today [1]) wants to talk about microservices in clojure, and folks want to keep her out because of her views on women in technology, you are ok with that also? Let me also emphasize that no one disputes that strangeloop has the legal right to do this. The discussion is simply over whether the strangeloop organizers are a bunch…
Comment linking /2015/06/ultratestable-coding-style.html
on ““A Statement with My View on Curtis Yarvin and Strange Loop””Submitted Don’t build systems, build subsystems as a story · 81 points
HN discussionIt is sort of a followup to the previous post: http://blog.jessitron.com/2012/09/confessions-of-woman-in-te...
Comment linking /2012/09/confessions-of-woman-in-tech.html
on “This is Not ok”Submitted This is Not ok as a story · 66 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Aren't There More Women Programmers? as a story · 39 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dictionary Objects in JavaScript and TypeScript (2017) as a story · 35 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tradeoffs in Coordination Among Teams as a story · 31 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hyperproductive development as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tradeoffs in Coordination Among Teams as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Functional Matters: Your white board will never be the same as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted How can we develop and operate increasingly useful software? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Lot of Rules as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scaling Intelligence as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted When OO and FP meet as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Subtasks vs. Capabilities as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Take Care of Code - More and More Code as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do Things Right in VSCode as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hyperproductive Development (2017) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Give me feedback that is qualitative, broad, and random as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Makes a Dependency Dependable? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted For cleaner code, write ugly code as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hyperproductive development as a story · 3 points
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