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    Jesse Wilson

    publicobject.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2014

    Jesse Wilson, an OkHttp maintainer, writes about Java and Kotlin, API design, open source maintenance, and benchmarks.

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    What HN says

    HN commenters link his posts on FlatBuffers being lazy rather than fast and on LinkedHashMap, and one remembers a personal tribute post.

    Stats for nerds
    17HN people shared it
    13linked in comments
    82story points
    Apr 2023last shared
    2015people per year2023

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      Strict APIs vs. Forgiving APIs
      1 person · 54 points · first shared 2020 · 47 comments on HN
    2. 2
      FlatBuffers aren’t fast, they’re lazy
      2 people · 5 points · first shared 2015 · Discussion on HN
    3. 3
      Building on the Wrong Abstraction
      1 person · 4 points · first shared 2020 · Discussion on HN
    4. 4
      The Open Source Maintainer's Dilemma
      2 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · Discussion on HN
    5. 5
      Metrics for OkHttp’s Kotlin Upgrade
      2 people · 3 points · first shared 2019 · Discussion on HN
    6. 6
      The JSON benchmarks are wrong
      1 person · 3 points · first shared 2014 · Discussion on HN
    7. 7
      OkHttp 2.3 has HTTP/2
      1 person · 3 points · first shared 2015 · Discussion on HN
    8. 8
      A WidgetSystem, Not a WidgetFactoryFactory
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2025 · Discussion on HN
    9. 9
      Posting Images on GitHub's wiki
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2015 · Discussion on HN
    10. 10
      Seductive Code
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2016 · Discussion on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • yla92Jan 2017

      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/

      Donn Felker - http://www.donnfelker.com

      Mark Allison - https://blog.stylingandroid.com

      Jesse Wilson - https://publicobject.com/

      Roman Nurik - https://twitter.com/romannurik

    • tadfisherOct 2022

      In 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-better-than-hashmap/

    • jessewilsonApr 2023

      Bob & 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/

    • sonnypNov 2015

      Related https://publicobject.com/2015/11/06/flatbuffers-arent-fast-theyre-lazy/

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