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Jesse Wilson
Personal blog · publicobject.comprogramming
Jesse Wilson writes Public Object, a personal blog at publicobject.com about programming. Since 2014, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “FlatBuffers aren’t fast, they’re lazy”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Jesse Wilson's blog for its Java and Android engineering posts, such as the LinkedHashMap ordering argument and FlatBuffers performance, plus a personal tribute to Bob Lee.
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.
Jesse Wilson on programming.
Most-linked posts?
- FlatBuffers aren’t fast, they’re lazy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-07
- The Open Source Maintainer's Dilemma2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-03
- Metrics for OkHttp’s Kotlin Upgrade2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-13
What Hacker News says?
For Android dev related, I follow Jake Wharton : https://github.com/jakewharton , https://twitter.com/JakeWharton - He is well known in Android community. He has authored a lot of great libraries personally and under Square. Mark Murphy - https://commonsware.com/blog/ Chris Banes - https://chris.banes.me/ Cyril Mottier - https://cyrilmottier.com , https://twitter.com/cyrilmottier Dan Lew - http://blog.danlew.net/ Do…
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on “Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?”Submitted Strict APIs vs. Forgiving APIs as a story · 54 points
HN discussionIn addition to this, Java should eliminate unordered collections entirely and alias them to their ordered equivalents; for example, HashMap -> LinkedHashMap, HashSet -> LinkedHashSet. See [0]. [0]: https://publicobject.com/2016/02/08/linkedhashmap-is-always-...
Comment linking /2016/02/08/linkedhashmap-is-always-better-than-hashmap/
on “JEP 431: Sequenced Collections”Submitted FlatBuffers aren’t fast, they’re lazy as a story · 5 points
HN discussionBob & Krista invited my wife and I to a Medieval Faire and I was struck by just how much energy he had. He rented a king & queen costume for the day and carried himself to match his attire. I’ll miss him forever. https://publicobject.com/2023/04/05/bob-bent-the-universe/
Comment linking /2023/04/05/bob-bent-the-universe/
on “Remembering Bob Lee”Submitted Building on the Wrong Abstraction as a story · 4 points
HN discussionRelated https://publicobject.com/2015/11/06/flatbuffers-arent-fast-t...
Comment linking /2015/11/06/flatbuffers-arent-fast-theyre-lazy/
on “Facebook uses FlatBuffers on one billion Android devices”Submitted OkHttp 2.3 has HTTP/2 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The JSON benchmarks are wrong as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A WidgetSystem, Not a WidgetFactoryFactory as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Metrics for OkHttp’s Kotlin Upgrade as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seductive Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Open Source Maintainer's Dilemma as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Posting Images on GitHub's wiki as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Discovering Limits as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Java: 2.4 seconds compile time. Kotlin rewrite: 10.2 seconds as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Open Source Maintainer’s Dilemma as a story · 1 points
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