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Michael Whatcott

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Michael Whatcott's personal blog at michaelwhatcott.com covers programming. Since 2014, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often ““Brvty” in the Go Programming Language (2014)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2014–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2015

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Why HN links it

HN commenters link this blog's Go tooling posts, mainly the goimports setup guide for GoSublime and Sublime, and a page on Norvig's 'Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years' essay.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. /gosublime-goimports/
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-05-15
  2. “Brvty” in the Go Programming Language (2014)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. > Go basically forces you to have clean code all along, > which is a bit like forcing a scientist to wipe down the > workbench and rinse all the beakers between every experiment, >or forcing a writer to run the spell checker after every cigarette. As usage of gofmt is idiomatic Go, simply using the superset goimports handles all of this for you. Sure, any language has tools to reformat code for you in some magic way…

    Comment linking /gosublime-goimports/

    on “Four days of Go”
  2. Submitted “Brvty” in the Go Programming Language (2014) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. I'm currently reading it as I started to program in Golang only one month ago and I'd never heard of goimports, this is a nice tool! Mixing it with GoSublime and it does a really good job http://michaelwhatcott.com/gosublime-goimports/ The book is well written and it looks like it covers a lot of common topics, I think I'm gonna buy it.

    Comment linking /gosublime-goimports/

    on “First chapter of Kernighan and Donovan's new Go book [pdf]”
  4. Submitted Go code that stutters as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. It was about 10 years ago that I read Norvig's "10 years" post: https://michaelwhatcott.com/10-years/

    Comment linking /10-years/

    on “Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)”
  6. Submitted Brvty as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. There are some instructions in the docs for this: https://godoc.org/code.google.com/p/go.tools/cmd/goimports For sublime users, see here: http://michaelwhatcott.com/gosublime-goimports/ It's a great tool, very convenient.

    Comment linking /gosublime-goimports/

    on “My Opinionated Guide To Go”

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