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Jacob Voytko
Personal blog · clientserver.dev · on HN as jakevoytkocareerprogrammingai
Jacob Voytko writes Client/Server, a personal blog at clientserver.dev about career, programming and ai. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Create-react-app is a zombie application”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-07, and you can follow it by feed.
A staff software engineer's view on current events, tech trends, and the occasional rant.
Most-linked posts?
- Create-react-app is a zombie application2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-23
What Hacker News says?
For my newsletter[0], I just reached 231 subscribers in 5 months. Getting to this point has involved posting to as many channels as possible (without wearing out my welcome in any of them) My first 40 subscribers came from direct friends and my LinkedIn network. I got about 150 subscribers from a single popular post on Hacker News, posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43461618 The remainder have come fr…
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on “Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?”Submitted War story: the hardest bug I ever debugged as a story · 462 points
HN discussionI am writing a newsletter, https://www.clientserver.dev , which started with the writing prompt “what if someone tried to make Money Stuff for software engineering?” I’m still iterating on the format a bit, but I just crossed 100 subscribers and made the Hacker News front page, so I feel like I’m on the right track. I had a daughter almost 2 years ago, and for a while I didn’t have any free time. But once I started…
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)”Submitted Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room as a story · 375 points
HN discussionI am writing a newsletter, https://www.clientserver.dev . It started with the writing prompt “what if someone tried to make Money Stuff for software engineering?” My time is constrained since I have a kid, and I’m still iterating on the format a bit. But I recently crossed 250 subscribers and have made the Hacker News front page twice in the 6 months I have been running the newsletter, so I feel like I’m on the righ…
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)”Submitted Every SWE knows DOGE can't rewrite Social Security in a few months as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted How did Google's illegal ad monopoly work? as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Create-react-app is a zombie application as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted I fixed my skill issue with Cursor as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust for Linux still contentious after 5 years as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Write better comments by removing "we" as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Create-react-app is a zombie application as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Allow candidates to use LLMs in job interviews as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Salesforce Bets on Storytelling over Engineering as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Citigroup and Extreme Overpayments as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The coolest Advent of Code 2024 submissions as a story · 1 points
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