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Jake Worth
Personal blog · jakeworth.com/postsprogrammingcareerproductivity
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Essays on Programming I Think About a Lot2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-31
- I read 44 books last year2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-02
What Hacker News says?
Submitted Essays on Programming I Think About a Lot as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Guess as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your Software Is Confusing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Better Than 'Foo' as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Vim as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Favorite TypeScript Learnings from TypeNotes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Leave a Trace as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Commenting and Approving Pull Requests as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Get Better at Guitar as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running a great software engineering standup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I read 44 books last year as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things I check before opening a pull request as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning to Program in 2026 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Always Be Ranking as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Acceptance Criteria That Work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Ran a Kaizen for Knowledge Work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted "Hit It Twice" Customer Service as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reflections on Ten Years Professionally Programming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Absence of Color Is Better Than the Wrong Color as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Talk: My Guide to Tech Public Speaking as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simplified Technical English in My Writing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Learn a Codebase by Changing It as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Avoid Hasty Caching as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Become a product-first software engineer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Read 44 Books Last Year as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Better DX with Friday Reboots as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's Wrong With This Idea? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Discourage Sleep in Code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons from running Meetups for 10 years as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Unabstract an Abstraction as a story · 1 points
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