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Steve On Stuff
Personal blog · steveonstuff.comprogramming
Steve On Stuff is a personal blog at steveonstuff.com about programming. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “There’s No Such Thing as Clean Code”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its post arguing that "clean code" is an imprecise phrase and that writers should use more precise words. Commenters cite it as a source for that point.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- There’s No Such Thing as Clean Code3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-01-28
What Hacker News says?
Interesting thing about "clean code" I just read today: https://www.steveonstuff.com/2022/01/27/no-such-thing-as-cle... The article says we need to use more precise words. In this case, the macro can create a bug, so is using the macro "cleaner"?
Comment linking /2022/01/27/no-such-thing-as-clean-code
on “Apple contributes to OBS to support screen capture using ScreenCaptureKit”Submitted There’s No Such Thing as Clean Code as a story · 366 points
HN discussionOf relevance, the adjective "clean": https://www.steveonstuff.com/2022/01/27/no-such-thing-as-cle...
Comment linking /2022/01/27/no-such-thing-as-clean-code
on “Red Light Green Light”Submitted An Approach for Migrating from Objective-C to Swift as a story · 8 points
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