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Caleb Schoepp
Personal blog · calebschoepp.com/blogprogrammingcareerproductivity
Caleb Schoepp's personal blog at calebschoepp.com covers programming, career and productivity. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Crafting Interpreters – Adding a list data type to lox”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on 'productivity porn', the habit of consuming productivity content. One commenter cites it when arguing that such consumption can be an addiction that needs rethinking.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Crafting Interpreters – Adding a list data type to lox3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-08-17
- Productivity porn2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-03
What Hacker News says?
Hey, GrokJS is a VS Code extension I built at a hackathon with some friends. It makes learning JavaScript Syntax easier by explaining it directly within the editor. I was inspired to build this plugin because despite having programmed for years I still get hung up on odd syntax — especially when working with an unfamiliar language. To make matters worse it is really hard to Google for help with confusing syntax. Sea…
Comment linking /blog/2021/building-grokjs-at-hacked-2021/
on “Show HN: VS Code extension to help learn JavaScript syntax”Submitted Productivity porn as a story · 770 points
HN discussionIf you're doing that for marketing purposes, try automating it or hiring someone. If you're doing that because that's the content you keep consuming, you're addicted to productivity porn and need to revisit how you think about that kind of content: https://calebschoepp.com/blog/2022/productivity-porn/
Comment linking /blog/2022/productivity-porn/
on “Ask HN: How do you keep going without burning out?”Submitted Three things you should buy and use as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chrome shortcuts I use everyday as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Programmer's Three Identities as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Crafting Interpreters – Adding a list data type to lox as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adding a List data type to Lox as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adding a List Data Type to Lox as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Questioning My Approach to Advice as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted When should I give up? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tips for Starting a Software Engineering Internship as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I love discovering new blogs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Discovering Blogs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adding a List data type to Lox as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adding a List Data Type to Lox as a story · 1 points
HN discussion