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Tomas Votruba
Personal blog · tomasvotruba.com/blogprogrammingweb
Tomas Votruba's personal blog at tomasvotruba.com covers programming and web. Since 2021, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Is PHP a Rusty Language?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Tomas Votruba's posts on measuring code readability with cognitive complexity and on using GitHub Actions for CI. Commenters cite them as sources rather than praising the writing.
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.
Tomas Votruba writes about PHP, legacy code, Rector and automated refactoring, coaching and kaizen.
Most-linked posts?
- Is PHP a Rusty Language?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-12
What Hacker News says?
Readability can be quantified and it done by static code analyzers into a metric known as cognitive complexity [0], which measures things like amount of branches in your function. The thing is, you can make code of low complexity but still hard to read. [0] https://tomasvotruba.com/blog/2018/05/21/is-your-code-readab...
Comment linking /blog/2018/05/21/is-your-code-readable-by-humans-cognitive-complexity-tells-you/
on “Simple Code, High Performance [video]”Submitted PHP Is the Best Choice for Long‑Term Business as a story · 26 points
HN discussionGitLab has many of Github's features including CI, no? https://tomasvotruba.com/blog/how-can-we-use-github-actions-... . Furthermore, GitLab can be self-hosted and the CI can be configured to use your own VMs. My team does CI in gitlab, and many big organizations use self-hosted instances GitLab like KDE and GNOME.
Comment linking /blog/how-can-we-use-github-actions-in-gitlab
on “Revolt: FOSS Discord Alternative”Submitted Create Weird Fun PHPStan Rules Like Nobody's Watching as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted PHP Is the Best Choice for Long‑Term Business as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Use Agents to Extract Hidden Feedback from GitHub as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tree Coding vs. Bush Coding as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unicorn Benefits of Rust/Go Tooling in PHP as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is PHP a Rusty Language? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is PHP a Rusty Language? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Migrated This Website from Symfony to Laravel as a story · 1 points
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