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tedspence.com is a personal blog at tedspence.com about programming and games. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts are about printf debugging. The one comment cites the practice as a best practice and does not comment on the writing itself.
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.
What Hacker News says?
printf() debugging is still considered a best practice in the eyes of many. I still remember being really surprised when I heard my famous (Turing award-winning) CS professor tell the class this for the first time. https://tedspence.com/the-art-of-printf-debugging-7d5274d6af...
Comment linking /the-art-of-printf-debugging-7d5274d6af44
on “You can just port things to Cloudflare Workers”Submitted The Rise and Fall of 6502 Gaming (2020) as a story · 48 points
HN discussionSubmitted Teaching to Empty Rectangles as a story · 1 points
HN discussion