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Vincent Rolfs
Personal blog · vincentrolfs.dev/blog · on HN as vincentrolfsprogrammingcareer
Vincent Rolfs's personal blog at vincentrolfs.dev covers programming and career. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “A relationship between the Collatz conjecture and the Fibonacci numbers”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its explanation of JavaScript's let/const temporal dead zone and its runtime performance cost. One commenter cites the post alongside MDN's documentation on the topic.
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.
Homepage of Vincent Rolfs. Vincent is a freelance Software Engineer and IT-Consultant. He has more than ten years experience in developing complex applications on the web.
Most-linked posts?
- A relationship between the Collatz conjecture and the Fibonacci numbers4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-02-16
- The Temporal Dead Zone, or why the TypeScript codebase is full of var statements3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-10-01
What Hacker News says?
Let and const have a "temporal dead zone" before initialisation that distinguishes them from var, which is just undefined: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... Runtime TDZ checks can be performance issues: https://vincentrolfs.dev/blog/ts-var
Comment linking /blog/ts-var
on “Are you telling me a readonly property is wrecking my performance?”Submitted The Temporal Dead Zone, or why the TypeScript codebase is full of var statements as a story · 119 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Temporal Dead Zone, why TypeScripts codebase is littered with var statements as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A relationship between the Collatz conjecture and the Fibonacci numbers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The word “Sprint” in agile development: An unfortunate misnomer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A relationship between the Collatz conjecture and the Fibonacci numbers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A relationship between the Collatz conjecture and the Fibonacci numbers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A relationship between the Collatz conjecture and the Fibonacci numbers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The word "Sprint" in agile development: An unfortunate misnomer as a story · 1 points
HN discussion