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.
What HN saysHN commenters link his posts on FlatBuffers being lazy rather than fast and on LinkedHashMap, and one remembers a personal tribute post.
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Most-shared posts
- 1FlatBuffers aren’t fast, they’re lazy2 people · 5 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 2The Open Source Maintainer's Dilemma2 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 3Metrics for OkHttp’s Kotlin Upgrade2 people · 3 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 4Strict APIs vs. Forgiving APIs1 people · 54 points · first shared 2020 · 47 comments on HN
- 5Building on the Wrong Abstraction1 people · 4 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 6The JSON benchmarks are wrong1 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 7OkHttp 2.3 has HTTP/21 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 8Seductive Code1 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 9Posting Images on GitHub's wiki1 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 10A WidgetSystem, Not a WidgetFactoryFactory1 people · 2 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 11Discovering Limits1 people · 1 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 12Linkedhashmap is always better than hashmap1 people · first shared 2022
- 13Homepage1 people · first shared 2017
- 14Bob bent the universe1 people · first shared 2023
What HN people wrote when they linked it
yla92 · 2017-01-30
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
jessewilson · 2023-04-06
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/
tadfisher · 2022-10-14
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-tha…