1
Code is run more than read
Code is read more than written, code is run more than read. I think this line of thought can be extended beyond code-writing, and used as a rule of thumb to identify problems and make decisions.
Mariano Olano
- Popular posts
- 11
- Total points
- 2,982
- HN comments
- 1,142
- Rank
- #474 personal
Visit olano.dev → RSS feedOn Hacker News Dec 2023 – May 2026
Software Engineering 7Life, Learning & Writing 3Tools & Productivity 2Design & UX 2Web & Frontend 1Society, Policy & Culture 1
2
Software Design Is Knowledge Building
The product of software development is not code but a mental model, a theory: a specific way of explaining the world.
3
Reclaiming the web with a personal reader
There’s a kind of zen flow that programmers unblock when they experience their software daily as an end user. There’s no better catalyst for ideas and experimentation, no better prioritization driver than having to face the bugs, annoyances, and limitations of an application first-hand.
4
Gleam, Coming from Erlang
I recently took some time to try Gleam, the type-safe language that runs on the Erlang virtual machine. For a couple of weeks, I used it to build a little feed aggregator. These are my notes.
5
--dangerously-skip-reading-code
What if we dutifully communicate the risks and trade-offs to our organizational leadership and they still want to take those risks
6
From RSS to My Kindle
A Kindle integration was a natural extension to my feed reader. I had to learn a couple of things to get it working, so it seemed interesting to document the implementation process.
7
A Pixel Parable
An imagined town is at least as real as an actual town.
8
Software possession for personal use
A little rest area by the road to a better web.
9
A Note on Essential Complexity
The fact that we can’t remove essential complexity with a software redesign doesn’t mean that there’s nothing we can do about it. What if the problem definition wasn’t outside of our purview? What if we could get the world to conform to the software, and not just the other way around?
10
Code is run more than read (2023)
Code is read more than written, code is run more than read. I think this line of thought can be extended beyond code-writing, and used as a rule of thumb to identify problems and make decisions.
11
Deconstructing the Role-Playing Video Game
To me, a classic JRPG is pure mechanism, a kind of puzzle. Was there some way of getting the fun out of building such a mechanism—of solving that puzzle—, wrapping it with the minimal amount of functionality, the simplest thing that could possibly pass as a video game?