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Toshok's Musings
Personal blog · blog.toshokelectric.comprogrammingsystems
Toshok's Musings is a personal blog at blog.toshokelectric.com about programming and systems. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a discussion of a Ruby post on why class methods resist refactoring. The comment uses the post's JavaScript angle to discuss CoffeeScript getters and setters. It does not judge the post.
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.
Musings about computing, both retro and futuristic
What Hacker News says?
It's interesting that you mention Javascript. There was recently a post on CoffeeScript that hit the frontpage, and one reference it linked was to a point of contention between CoffeeScript's developers and a library creator over whether CoffeeScript should introduce a nontrivial amount of wrapper code to support attribute setters and getters [1]. The library author made the following argument: For CoffeeKit specifi…
Comment linking /why-im-ditching-coffeescript/
on “Why Ruby Class Methods Resist Refactoring”Submitted Pirouette 0.1.0 released as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Too little, too late: my thoughts on ES6 modules as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How much instrumentation is enough / when am I done? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted EchoJS compiler using LLVM as a story · 1 points
HN discussion