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Leonardo Borges

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Leonardo Borges's personal blog at leonardoborges.com covers ai, programming and career. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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2010–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

Linked in a 2013 Clojure year-in-review thread. The one comment discusses the author's Clojure work, including the Pulsar library and his views on established practices for large programs.

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.

Chief Engineer for GenAI at Commonwealth Bank. Writing about AI adoption, engineering leadership, and the gap between the hype cycle and production.

What Hacker News says?

  1. You've obviously given this quite a bit of thought, given your work on the Pulsar library: https://github.com/puniverse/pulsar Your comment below this one focuses more on 'established practices' for large programs rather than 'is there a library that has this feature?'. I think that's just a reflection of both the state of functional programming and Clojure. They are growing and on there way to being commonly used i…

    Comment linking /writings/2012/11/30/monads-in-small-bites-part-i-functors/

    on “Clojure 2013 Year in Review”
  2. Submitted Clojure and 'Why Calculating Is Better Than Scheming' as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Purely functional data structures in Clojure: Red-Black Trees as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Functional Composition With Monads, Kleislis and Functors as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Monads in Small Bites – Part III – Monoids as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Clojure, core.async and the Lisp advantage as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Announcing Bouncer, a Validation Library for Clojure Apps as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Scaling RoR: Clouds against the Floods as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Hacking Ruby's Syntax as a story · 1 points

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