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Michael Scharhag

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Michael Scharhag writes Programming and Stuff, a personal blog at mscharhag.com about programming. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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2013–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

Only one comment, which cites this blog's post on generic type arguments for exception subclasses as a correction, with no judgement of the writing's quality.

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A blog about programming and software development topics, mostly focused on Java technologies including Java EE, Spring and Grails.

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  1. Ah, my mistake. I was thinking of generice type arguments for exception subclasses: https://www.mscharhag.com/java/java-exceptions-and-generic-t... That also includes generic catch clauses and inner exception types of classes with type parameters.

    Comment linking /java/java-exceptions-and-generic-types

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  12. Submitted Getting Started with method security in Grails using Spring Security as a story · 1 points

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