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codefinger
Personal blog · jkutner.github.ioprogrammingcareerproductivity
codefinger is a personal blog at jkutner.github.io about programming, career and productivity. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment is about JVM startup time in a thread on an Electron app, and it links unrelated sources. It does not discuss this blog's writing, so the posts' subject is not clear from the comments.
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.
Cloud Native Buildpacks, Healthy Programmer, Salesforce, Heroku
What Hacker News says?
The JVM isn't actually slow to start [1] (albeit it does start about 3x-4x slower than python, ruby, or node) [2]. Most of the slow startup in a JVM-based application is in classloading [3] or waiting for your chosen framework to initialize [4] before the control is handed to your custom code. [1] https://purelyfunctional.tv/article/the-legend-of-long-jvm-s... [2] https://dev.clojure.org/display/design/Improving+Clo…
Comment linking /2015/12/01/java-boot-time.html
on “How Four Native Developers Wrote an Electron App”Submitted Write a Good Dockerfile in 19 “Easy” Steps as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Remote Debugging a Java Process on Heroku as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted 10 Rules for Writing Well as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A New JRuby Launcher as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Testing JDK 9 EA with Heroku as a story · 1 points
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