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Runtime Checks
Personal blog · blog.felipe.rsprogrammingsystems
Runtime Checks is a personal blog at blog.felipe.rs about programming and systems. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Demystifying JOIN Algorithms”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on reducing the cognitive load of code. One commenter says its points are technically sound but argues it misses that cognitive load grows over time as tech keeps changing.
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.
I am a Brazilian Sofware Engineer working remotely from Brazil. I taught myself programming when I was in high school and studied Computer Science in university. I currently work at Voltron Data on the C++ implementation of Apache Arrow. In the past, I lived in Sweden and worked at Spotify on the co
Most-linked posts?
- Demystifying JOIN Algorithms2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-29
- Id Software Programming Principles2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-25
What Hacker News says?
Though your points seem (technically) on-point, you might be missing the one facet of the "cognitive load" concept that I think is the defining one: as time marches on, entropy increases and in tech that means, cognitive load does. Every day there are new command-line tools and arguments and combinations and compositions, every week new languages, every quarter new syntax sugars in minor releases of major languages,…
Comment linking /2017/02/25/id-software-programming-principles/
on “Writing good code: how to reduce the cognitive load of your code”Submitted Id Software Programming Principles as a story · 340 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where Do Type Systems Come From? as a story · 285 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where do type systems come from? (2017) as a story · 201 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Build a GCC Cross-Compiler for the Raspberry Pi as a story · 34 points
HN discussionSubmitted Papers I've Read in 2017 as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Demystifying JOIN Algorithms as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Leveraging Zero-Cost Abstractions in C++: Variadic Templates as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Demystifying JOIN Algorithms as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Monorepo First, Submodules Later as a story · 2 points
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