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Jacob Elder
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Jacob Elder's personal blog at jacobelder.com covers programming and career. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Where "Shift Left" Fails: Type Theater”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-04-02, 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 blog for a post on the origin of the BSD daemon logo, which one commenter says was originally drawn by John Lasseter, later director of Toy Story.
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.
My thoughts on software engineering and more
Most-linked posts?
- Where "Shift Left" Fails: Type Theater2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-02-12
- John Lasseter drew the BSD daemon logo2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-17
What Hacker News says?
I use something similar, but call them “Rubber-duck channels.” http://www.jacobelder.com/2025/02/25/habits-and-tools-effect...
Comment linking /2025/02/25/habits-and-tools-effective-remote-teams.html
on “If you're remote, ramble”Submitted John Lasseter drew the BSD daemon logo as a story · 440 points
HN discussionThe necessity of using a JSON column was outside of my control, but Zod etc. are absolutely required, I think, in most projects. I wrote more about that here: https://www.jacobelder.com/2025/01/31/where-shift-left-fails...
Comment linking /2025/01/31/where-shift-left-fails-type-theater.html
on “SQLite JSON at full index speed using generated columns”Submitted Where "Shift Left" Fails: Type Theater as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe BSD logo was originally drawn by John Lassetter , who would later write and direct Toy Story and a couple of other successful movies. https://www.jacobelder.com/2024/01/17/director-of-toy-story-... Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39030991 EDIT: While the John Lassetter version became most popular he did not draw the original. Thanks to dagmx for pointing that out and the additional back…
Comment linking /2024/01/17/director-of-toy-story-also-drew-bsd-daemon.html
on “Superstitious Users and the FreeBSD Logo”Submitted Habits and Tools of Effective Remote Teams as a story · 2 points
HN discussionStrongly agree! Rust’s sqlx is also insanely great, and I like sqlc for Go as well. I’ve written a lot about this particular topic: https://www.jacobelder.com/2025/01/31/where-shift-left-fails...
Comment linking /2025/01/31/where-shift-left-fails-type-theater.html
on “Does OLAP Need an ORM”Submitted Type Theater and Pushing Left as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Combining my hobbies: plants and chatbots as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where "Shift Left" Fails: Type Theater as a story · 1 points
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