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Mavnn's blog
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Mavnn's blog is a personal blog at blog.mavnn.co.uk about programming. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on Google indexing and in a reference list for a video. The posts cover topics such as F# type providers and using types as an accessibility tool for the ADHD brain.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Slightly blowing my own trumpet, but if you want a brief overview of the basics this might help: http://blog.mavnn.co.uk/type-providers-from-the-ground-up/
Comment linking /type-providers-from-the-ground-up/
on “Creating maps using R, Deedle and F# type providers”Submitted Good Developer CVs (Résumés) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHave a type provider ;) http://blog.mavnn.co.uk/type-safe-printf-via-type-providers/ And yes: syntax is not quite so nice.
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on “Idris: Type safe printf [video]”Submitted Good Developer CVs (Résumés) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhi, first things first do not use the word "penalty" - you want to show up for a certain query in google, you think you should show up for it, you don't show up for it. that is the issue, nothing else. you formulated a hypothesis: you think your site is "penalised by Google" ok, go to google webmaster tools and verify - http://blog.mavnn.co.uk/ - http://mavnn.co.uk/ - http://www.mavnn.co.uk/ check the "Site Messages…
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on “Ask HN: What do you do when your website seems to be penalised by Google?”Submitted Keeping Up with the Latest Hammer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is a hard thing to debug from outside the Googleplex, but you are currently serving a canonical tag: <link rel="canonical" href=" http://blog.mavnn.co.uk/type-providers-from-the-ground-up"> for a URL which cannot possibly return an HTTP 200. (It 301s to a URL with a / on the end.) This combination could cause Google to conclude that you have no page which requires inclusion in their main index.
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on “Ask HN: What do you do when your website seems to be penalised by Google?”Submitted (F#) Type Providers From the Ground Up as a story · 2 points
HN discussionReferences he created for the video: https://blog.mavnn.co.uk/2024/05/17/adhd_refs.html
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on “Types and other techniques as an accessibility tool for the ADHD brain [video]”Submitted In Which Our Intrepid Author De-sugars a Monad by Hand as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Perls before Swine (Perl script to F# translation) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted If I Ruled the World... Remote Working as a story · 1 points
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