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Ashton Kemerling

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Ashton Kemerling's personal blog at ashtonkemerling.com covers programming and career. Since 2012, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Java Without If”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-09, and you can follow it by feed.

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16mentions?
9HN people?
2012–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link Ashton's 2016 post on growing frustration with Clojure, in a thread on how Clojure tickets are triaged. Another link points to a résumé in a hiring thread.

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.

Ashton Kemerling's personal website

Most-linked posts?

  1. Java Without If
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. stuarthalloway · 2016-06-11
    Alex Miller is the person primarily responsible for triaging Clojure tickets. For a thoughtful, balanced assessment of the issues Ashton raises, read Alex's detailed comment on the original post: http://ashtonkemerling.com/blog/2016/06/11/my-increasing-fru...

    Comment linking /blog/2016/06/11/my-increasing-frustration-with-clojure/

    on “My Increasing Frustration with Clojure”
  2. tretiy3 · 2017-01-27

    Submitted Java Without If as a story · 352 points

    HN discussion
  3. ashtonkem · 2021-02-01
    Location: Boise, ID Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: People, mostly. Also Ruby, Rust, and Java. Résumé: https://ashtonkemerling.com/resume/ Email: ashtonkemerling@protonmail.com

    Comment linking /resume/

    on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2021)”
  4. village-idiot · 2016-06-11

    Submitted My Increasing Frustration with Clojure as a story · 274 points

    HN discussion
  5. village-idiot · 2018-02-22

    Submitted You Probably Don't Need a Blockchain as a story · 151 points

    HN discussion
  6. Garbage · 2012-11-29

    Submitted The Myth of the Lone Hacker as a story · 51 points

    HN discussion
  7. village-idiot · 2017-01-27

    Submitted Java Without If as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  8. village-idiot · 2019-03-10

    Submitted I Don't Like Slack as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. ashtonkem · 2020-04-10

    Submitted Two Open Source Models as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. village-idiot · 2018-12-20

    Submitted False Novelty as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. todsacerdoti · 2023-02-26

    Submitted Telemetry and Trust as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Yizahi · 2022-10-18

    Submitted Lets Talk about Trains as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. ashtonkem · 2021-01-12

    Submitted Parler, AWS, and the ACLU as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. village-idiot · 2017-09-01

    Submitted MDC and Thread Pools: A Bad Combination as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Envec83 · 2014-06-09

    Submitted Confessions of a Language Snob as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. AshtonKemerling · 2012-12-04

    Submitted No More Exploratory Bugs as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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