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Jake McCrary
Personal blog · jakemccrary.com/blogprogramming
Jake McCrary's personal blog at jakemccrary.com covers programming. Since 2010, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Go create silly, small programs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-26, 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 Jake McCrary's post on putting the last command's runtime in the shell prompt. A commenter cites it as the basis for a method that shows commands running over 60 seconds.
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?
- Go create silly, small programs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-06
What Hacker News says?
I do that, if it's over 60 seconds - it's not as straightforward since you also need to use PROMPT_COMMAND, a debug trap, and a variable to store the start time: https://jakemccrary.com/blog/2015/05/03/put-the-last-command...
Comment linking /blog/2015/05/03/put-the-last-commands-run-time-in-your-bash-prompt/
on “Do not use redirection characters in your shell prompt”Submitted What are the most used Clojure libraries? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Faster Feedback for Clojure Tests as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Go create silly, small programs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making code fast: Measure what you intend to measure (Clojure) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Plotting time series data with Incanter as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Humans ask, computers propose, humans decide as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Humans ask, computers propose, humans decide as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Go create small, silly programs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A More Helpful Makefile as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Guide to Distributed Work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating serverless applications with ClojureScript and Firebase as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Remote Pairing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Do an Effective Code Review as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comparing Clojure Testing Libraries as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Working on Multiple Clojure Projects at Once as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Better cd with autojump as a story · 1 points
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