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Paul Samuels
Personal blog · paul-samuels.com/blogprogramming
Paul Samuels's personal blog at paul-samuels.com covers programming. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Swift Parameter Packs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on unit testing Excel Lambda formulas. The linked update post takes a different, more Excel-like approach to showing the value of tests for a formula.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Swift Parameter Packs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-30
What Hacker News says?
I've chucked an update post here that uses a variation on your suggested approach https://paul-samuels.com/blog/2022/04/27/more-unit-testing-w... I did it using the same focus as the original post of trying to show the value of getting a formula behind some tests. In the post having this completely different more Excel like approach helps showcase the benefit of tests, where I can completely change the formula and s…
Comment linking /blog/2022/04/27/more-unit-testing-with-excel-lambdas-revisited/
on “More unit testing with Excel Lambdas”Submitted Writing custom tools with Swift as a story · 96 points
HN discussionSubmitted More unit testing with Excel Lambdas as a story · 48 points
HN discussionSubmitted Project Scripts as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unit Tests with Excel Lambdas as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Leaning on the Compiler as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted KSP and Me as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hands on Generics in Swift as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Updating Git-Edit as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git Delete-Merged as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do Ya Still Need It · Paul-Samuels.com as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Runtime Explosions to Compiler Checked Simplicity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swift Parameter Packs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swift Parameter Packs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Providing an explicit type vs. type inference: why not both? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quick branch switching without confusing Xcode (or your IDE of choice) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git Rebase –Exec as a story · 1 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Reusing Swift code in new and interesting ways as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Handling bad input data with Swift's Decodable as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Useful tools and knowledge when developing iOS applications as a story · 1 points
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