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Thomas Cothran
Personal blog · thomascothran.techprogrammingweb
Thomas Cothran's personal blog at thomascothran.tech covers programming and web. Since 2023, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The Wrong Kind of Readability”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked once as a bare link in a Ruby thread on endless methods. The URL slug suggests the post is about code readability, but no commenter says anything about the writing.
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.
Essays on software design, Clojure, and engineering.
Most-linked posts?
- The Wrong Kind of Readability3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-11-22
What Hacker News says?
https://thomascothran.tech/2023/11/readability/
Comment linking /2023/11/readability/
on “"Useless Ruby sugar": Endless (one-line) methods”Submitted Bthreads: A Simple and Easy Paradigm for Clojure as a story · 85 points
HN discussionSubmitted Have Clojure UIs Taken the Wrong Path? Part 1 as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Behavorial Programming in Clojure as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted MPAs vs. SPAs: The False Dichotomy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Wrong Kind of Readability as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Wrong Kind of Readability as a story · 1 points
HN discussion