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Jake Worth

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Jake Worth's personal blog at jakeworth.com covers programming, career and productivity. Since 2020, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 44 times, most often “Essays on Programming I Think About a Lot”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.

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44mentions?
8HN people?
2020–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 19 in 2026

Most-linked posts?

  1. Essays on Programming I Think About a Lot
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-31
  2. I read 44 books last year
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Essays on Programming I Think About a Lot as a story · 13 points

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  2. Submitted Don't Guess as a story · 3 points

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  3. Submitted Your Software Is Confusing as a story · 3 points

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  4. Submitted Better Than 'Foo' as a story · 3 points

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  5. Submitted Why Vim as a story · 3 points

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  6. Submitted Favorite TypeScript Learnings from TypeNotes as a story · 2 points

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  7. Submitted Leave a Trace as a story · 2 points

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  8. Submitted Commenting and Approving Pull Requests as a story · 2 points

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  9. Submitted How to Get Better at Guitar as a story · 2 points

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  10. Submitted Running a great software engineering standup as a story · 2 points

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  11. Submitted I read 44 books last year as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted Things I check before opening a pull request as a story · 2 points

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  13. Submitted Learning to Program in 2026 as a story · 2 points

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  14. Submitted Always Be Ranking as a story · 2 points

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  15. Submitted Acceptance Criteria That Work as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted We Ran a Kaizen for Knowledge Work as a story · 2 points

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  17. Submitted "Hit It Twice" Customer Service as a story · 2 points

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  18. Submitted Reflections on Ten Years Professionally Programming as a story · 2 points

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  19. Submitted Absence of Color Is Better Than the Wrong Color as a story · 2 points

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  20. Submitted How I Talk: My Guide to Tech Public Speaking as a story · 2 points

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  21. Submitted Simplified Technical English in My Writing as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted You Learn a Codebase by Changing It as a story · 1 points

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  23. Submitted Avoid Hasty Caching as a story · 1 points

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  24. Submitted Become a product-first software engineer as a story · 1 points

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  25. Submitted How I Read 44 Books Last Year as a story · 1 points

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  26. Submitted Better DX with Friday Reboots as a story · 1 points

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  27. Submitted What's Wrong With This Idea? as a story · 1 points

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  28. Submitted We Discourage Sleep in Code as a story · 1 points

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  29. Submitted Lessons from running Meetups for 10 years as a story · 1 points

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  30. Submitted How to Unabstract an Abstraction as a story · 1 points

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