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Matthias Noback

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Matthias Noback's personal blog at matthiasnoback.nl covers programming. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2020–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2020

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

Why HN links it

Linked in a thread on 'lasagna code', the term for code with too many layers. Commenters cite the post alongside the C2 wiki and Wikipedia definitions of the term.

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.

Discovering best practices in PHP & Fortran code

What Hacker News says?

  1. https://wiki.c2.com/?LasagnaCode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_code#Lasagna_code https://matthiasnoback.nl/2018/02/lasagna-code-too-many-laye... https://dev.to/mortoray/what-is-your-tale-of-lasagne-code-co... Generally used with a negative connotation. C2 also discusses how the layers can become entangled/stuck with one another and difficult to replace, which seems to fit the metaphor. For describing layer…

    Comment linking /2018/02/lasagna-code-too-many-layers/

    on “Write code. Not too much. Mostly functions.”
  2. Submitted DDD and Your Database as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Is not writing tests unprofessional? (2019) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Too Much Magic? (2022) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted On Using PSR Abstractions as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Relying on the database to validate your data as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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