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Alex Nachbaur
Personal blog · nachbaur.com/blogprogrammingsecurity
Alex Nachbaur's personal blog at nachbaur.com covers programming and security. Since 2009, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked posts cover building and distributing iOS apps, including over-the-air installs of .ipa files from a website. Commenters cite them as instructions for that process, not as praised writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hi, I’m Alex. I’ve been building software for over 30 years, starting with Perl on SunOS Unix systems, helped as an early co-founder of PhoneGap/Cordova, immersed myself into native mobile app development, and eventually landing deep in the world of Open Source SDKs and authentication/security. Alon
What Hacker News says?
They've now made is possible to do "over the air" distribution, whereby you put up your .ipa file on your website and email your users a link. They can then go to this link on their iPhone or iPad and it will install from your site. There's instructions on how to do this at: http://nachbaur.com/blog/building-ios-apps-for-over-the-air-... Although it saves you from having to email large files, you do still need to co…
Comment linking /blog/building-ios-apps-for-over-the-air-adhoc-distribution
on “Wozniak calls for open Apple”Submitted Phonegap Apps Officially OK with Apple as a story · 6 points
HN discussionRegarding PhoneGap specifically, which the book seems geared toward, for a short period of time Apple believed, erroneously, that the iPhone PhoneGap code was exposing unapproved APIs to developers, and were rejecting apps that used the platform. At that time, I think some devs were obfuscating PhoneGap and submitting the same apps, which were approved, so even then Apple were not objecting to anything actually in t…
Comment linking /blog/updates-on-apple-phonegap
on “Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript”Submitted Another Collection of iOS Libraries and Resources as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted In defence of Apple’s bug process as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Smarter Core Data as a story · 1 points
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