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Jake Wharton
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Jake Wharton's personal blog at jakewharton.com covers programming. Since 2013, 25 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “Removing Google as a single point of failure”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Android developer's blog for posts on Google's role in Android, Java and Kotlin language changes, and the Testing Robots pattern for unit tests.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Removing Google as a single point of failure6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-02-19
- Just Say MNo to Hungarian Notation3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-01-21
- Play Services 5.0 is a Monolithic Abomination3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-07-04
- A Jetpack Compose by any other name2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-30
- Treating Dockerfiles as shell scripts (2020)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-05
- Slope-Intercept Library Design2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-05
What Hacker News says?
Recent article I read from someone who works on Android: https://jakewharton.com/removing-google-as-a-single-point-of...
Comment linking /removing-google-as-a-single-point-of-failure/
on “Ask HN: As a Facebook or Google engineer, do you consider your company evil?”Submitted Which is better on Android: divide by 2 or shift by 1? as a story · 148 points
HN discussionHaven't watched it yet, but looks like the author gave a talk recently about differences between Kotlin and the latest Java: https://jakewharton.com/whats-new-in-java-19-the-end-of-kotl...
Comment linking /whats-new-in-java-19-the-end-of-kotlin/
on “Shrinking a Kotlin Binary by 99.2%”Submitted Shrinking a Kotlin Binary by 99.2% as a story · 100 points
HN discussionI don't think we've mellowed, just that we have become more sympathetic to Facebook's problem. I think the reality is that the 65k method limit problem has turned into something Android Developers put squarely at Google's feet. At the time I thought, what the hell is Facebook doing? Now, I've run into the 65k limit myself on an app written by 4 people over 18 months. Sure it's not a throwaway weekend project, but th…
Comment linking /play-services-is-a-monolith/
on “Facebook Does It Again. Cheating Dalvik”Submitted Android Needs A Simulator, Not An Emulator as a story · 86 points
HN discussionSounds like the Testing Robots Pattern which I first heard from Jake Wharton. Looks really nice https://jakewharton.com/testing-robots/
Comment linking /testing-robots/
on “Show HN: A C# library to help you enforce a Given-When-Then structured Unit test”Submitted Removing Google as a Single Point of Failure Part 2: Gmail as a story · 53 points
HN discussionSubmitted Removing Google as a Single Point of Failure as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Removing Google as a single point of failure as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Jetpack Compose by any other name as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Removing Google as a Single Point of Failure as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Removing Google as a Single Point of Failure as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Just Say MNo to Hungarian Notation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Treating Dockerfiles as shell scripts (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gradle Toolchains are rarely a good idea as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Slope-Intercept Library Design as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Treating Dockerfiles as Shell Scripts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Removing Google as a Single Point of Failure as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jake Wharton – Android's Java 9, 10, 11, and 12 Support as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Just Say mNo to Hungarian Notation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Play Services 5.0 is a Monolithic Abomination as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Android Build System Is Broken as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Slope-intercept library design (2022) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using jlink to cross-compile minimal JREs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Jetpack Compose by any other name as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sixteen Corners as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Just Say MNo to Hungarian Notation in Android Apps as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Play Services 5.0 Is A Monolith Abomination as a story · 1 points
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