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Donn Felker
Personal blog · donnfelker.com · on HN as donnfelkercareerstartupsproductivity
Donn Felker's personal blog at donnfelker.com covers career, startups and productivity. Since 2013, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Why Kotlin Multiplatform Won't Succeed”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-19, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Linked for a post on how the C programming language got its name. One commenter also lists Donn Felker among developers to follow for Android development.
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The psychology of doing your best work while everything changes. Weekly essays on Substack, products, and two decades of writing by Donn Felker.
Most-linked posts?
- Why Kotlin Multiplatform Won't Succeed3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-11-06
What Hacker News says?
For Android dev related, I follow Jake Wharton : https://github.com/jakewharton , https://twitter.com/JakeWharton - He is well known in Android community. He has authored a lot of great libraries personally and under Square. Mark Murphy - https://commonsware.com/blog/ Chris Banes - https://chris.banes.me/ Cyril Mottier - https://cyrilmottier.com , https://twitter.com/cyrilmottier Dan Lew - http://blog.danlew.net/ Do…
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on “Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?”Submitted How To Hire Outsourced Developers as a story · 120 points
HN discussionIf you need some code to implement this in an app, I wrote an example Simple EULA provider here: http://www.donnfelker.com/android-a-simple-eula-for-your-and... Download, include it in your app. DONE. Move onto the next problem.
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on “New Google Play policy requires opt-in dialog to show ads”Submitted The Decline of Mobile Development as a story · 23 points
HN discussionhttp://www.donnfelker.com/how-did-c-get-its-name/
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on “The Best Name Ever for a Computer Language”Submitted Monetizing Failure as a story · 21 points
HN discussionvu0tran - your post inspired me to write about my journey - read it here: http://www.donnfelker.com/learning-program-sucks/
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on “My personal struggles with learning how to program”Submitted Flutter Just May Work as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fragmented – A Podcast for Android Developers as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Never Quit Too Early as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop Asking How and Just Do It (2012) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Hire Programmers as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted No Status Page? You're Failing as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Kotlin Multiplatform Won't Succeed as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Stereotypical Day as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted It Ships. It's Profitable. It's Important as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I Use Crashlytics as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bootstrap Faster in One Step as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning to Program Sucks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Kotlin Multiplatform Won't Succeed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Kotlin Multiplatform won't succeed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning to Program Sucks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inspiration is Perishable as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AARRR Metrics Apply to All Businesses as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AndroidJobs.IO as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Perform the Most Valuable Task and Outsource the Rest as a story · 1 points
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