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Jake Shadle

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Jake Shadle writes Jake's Blog, a personal blog at jake-shadle.github.io about programming and systems. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Crash Reporting in Rust”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2021–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2022

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Jake Shadle's blog for technical crash-reporting writing, including a more technical follow-up on Mozilla's Rust-Minidump work, and for Windows build tooling such as xwin.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Crash Reporting in Rust
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-05-26
  2. Cross compiling Windows binaries from Linux
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. A better/more technical article on the same tech, from Mozilla's collaborators on this project: https://jake-shadle.github.io/crash-reporting/

    Comment linking /crash-reporting/

    on “Everything Is Broken: Shipping Rust-Minidump at Mozilla”
  2. Submitted Crash Reporting in Rust as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. For MSVC, have you explored using clang-cl as a drop-in replacement? https://clang.llvm.org/docs/MSVCCompatibility.html https://llvm.org/devmtg/2014-04/PDFs/Talks/clang-cl.pdf XWin for the CRT/SDK: https://github.com/Jake-Shadle/xwin https://jake-shadle.github.io/xwin/ A while ago I got some Python C extension modules building using this approach, but didn't push it any further.

    Comment linking /xwin/

    on “Isn't WSL2 just a VM?”
  4. Submitted Cross compiling Windows binaries from Linux as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Crash Reporting in Rust as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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