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seeinglogic blog
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seeinglogic blog is a personal blog at seeinglogic.com about programming and design. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-28, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link her post on visual patterns of code complexity, which compares six ways to write a simple getOddness() function. The comment cites the image to describe the commenter's own coding style.
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.
A blog about building, understanding, and breaking software. Focused on visualizations and other ideas for improving how we think about software.
What Hacker News says?
This image shows six different ways to write a simple function, getOddness(): https://seeinglogic.com/posts/visual-readability-patterns/6-... Personally, my normal style is getOddness2(). I try to never have an expression in my return statement -- only return a literal, local variable, or class data member. Why do I choose getOddness2()? It is so easy to debug. When I write code, I am mostly thinking about difficult…
Comment linking /posts/visual-readability-patterns/6-oddness.png
on “What makes code hard to read: Visual patterns of complexity (2023)”Submitted What makes code hard to read: Visual patterns of complexity (2023) as a story · 414 points
HN discussionSubmitted Returning to Love (Of Programming) as a story · 1 points
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