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Tom Janssens
Personal blog · tojans.me/blogprogrammingsystemswriting
Tom Janssens writes Hello on Tom's ramblings, a personal blog at tojans.me about programming, systems and writing. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Why bad software architecture is easy to monetize”. The last post was in 2021, 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 Tom Janssens' posts on freedom in learning and doing things outside programming, from a post written after the author walked away from programming. One commenter says to enjoy it.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Why bad software architecture is easy to monetize2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-02-17
What Hacker News says?
I think the definition of DDD is abstract on purpose. I proposed a one-liner a couple of years ago [0]: * The essence of DDD: make the implicit explicit (language, boundaries, code) and evolve your model so it matches the domain * But to be honest, in hindsight I think it was nothing more than a drip in the ocean, and does not clarify a lot, unless you are already well versed in DDD; it's like those explanations abo…
Comment linking /posts/ddd-in-a-tweet/
on “Domain-Driven Design”Submitted Why bad software architecture is easy to monetize as a story · 35 points
HN discussionI made something similar for a talk I used to give a few years ago [0]; including source code[1]. [0] http://tojans.me/vuexel/#/sheets/examplesheet [1] https://github.com/ToJans/vuexel
Comment linking /vuexel/
on “Tinysheet”Submitted Why bad software architecture is easy to monetize as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSure; enjoy: http://tojans.me/blog/2013/03/30/freedom-learning-stuff-doin...
Comment linking /blog/2013/03/30/freedom-learning-stuff-doing-consulting-aka-the-fun-and-money-balance/
on “Enough”Submitted Show HN: A toy spreadsheet in Vue.js as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis feels like Gigerenzer has read my mind. Two weeks back I blogged about a simple heuristic to model uncertainty in software estimates [1], and I received confirmation from several people that my proposed technique might be spot-on: estimate your happy path, figure out how many dimensions your uncertainty has, and multiply the happy path estimates by (sqrt PI ^ dimensions) [1] https://tojans.me/posts/software-est…
Comment linking /posts/software-estimates-done-right/
on “Gigerenzer’s simple rules of thumb often outperform complex models”Submitted Are new `.js` ui frameworks and – libs a fad? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou need to think about what you are doing, and why you are doing it. I had a similar experience a few years ago; walked away and never regretted my decision (I have 2 kids). (I blogged about it here: http://tojans.me/blog/2013/03/30/freedom-learning-stuff-doin... )
Comment linking /blog/2013/03/30/freedom-learning-stuff-doing-consulting-aka-the-fun-and-money-balance/
on “Ask HN: I'm bored with programming, what should I do?”Submitted Hangman in Haskell and some tips for idiomatic Haskell as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” as a story · 1 points
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