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Andre Garzia
Personal blog · andregarzia.comhardwarecultureprogramming
Andre Garzia writes AndreGarzia.com, a personal blog at andregarzia.com about hardware, culture and programming. Since 2014, 30 different Hacker News readers have linked it 97 times, most often “LiveCode is a modern day HyperCard (2019)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Andre Garzia's posts on Apple and Mac hardware, PWA storage, WhatsApp Web and Slack, and LiveCode as a modern HyperCard, mostly as background sources in discussions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
AndreGarzia.com website
Most-linked posts?
- LiveCode is a modern day HyperCard (2019)4 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2019-07-29
- On rants about laptops for developers4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-05-21
- Windows on ARM needs more support from developers3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-01-09
- Lua, a Misunderstood Language (2021)3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-01-15
- A Week with the Surface Pro X3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-01-26
- The Appeal of Small Computers3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-09-29
- Writing a Technical Book2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-04-17
- RSS doesn't necessarily means firehose2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-04-26
- Feed and Blogrolls Discovery2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-05-25
- The Mozilla I want focuses on people and not AI2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-04-18
What Hacker News says?
Apple is busy deleting localStorage data from PWA users... For those who did not read about it: https://andregarzia.com/2020/03/private-client-side-only-pwa...
Comment linking /2020/03/private-client-side-only-pwas-are-hard-but-now-apple-made-them-impossible.html
on “Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account”Submitted Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible as a story · 963 points
HN discussionI know it is not what you've been doing but it may be something you'd like to consider. I also love RSS and even though there are many add-ons to use in Firefox to restore that kind of functionality, I prefer to use Thunderbird to consume RSS/Atom feeds, I've posted about it at: http://andregarzia.com/2018/11/reading-blogs-with-thunderbir... Since Thunderbird is also my email client, it becomes a very pleasant exper…
Comment linking /2018/11/reading-blogs-with-thunderbird.html
on “Firefox 64 Released”Submitted WhatsApp doesn't understand the web as a story · 224 points
HN discussionhttps://andregarzia.com Mostly my blog. I post about books, creative writing, and also about programming.
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Why I chose Lua for this blog as a story · 201 points
HN discussionI wrote about reading blogs with Thunderbird not long ago: http://andregarzia.com/2018/11/reading-blogs-with-thunderbir... I think a similar setup would be good for many people here who wish to read RSS but doesn't want to add another SaaS to their life.
Comment linking /2018/11/reading-blogs-with-thunderbird.html
on “RSS Is Better Than Twitter”Submitted Gemini is a little gem as a story · 192 points
HN discussionIf any one here would like to see yet another notebook, I recommend checking out Traveller's Company Notebooks. I wrote a bit about them in: https://andregarzia.com/2022/01/got-a-passportsize-traveller...
Comment linking /2022/01/got-a-passportsize-travellers-notebook.html
on “I've used all the notebooks”Submitted Lua, a Misunderstood Language (2021) as a story · 178 points
HN discussionReally liked that post, then again Lua is one of my favourite languages. I wrote this post https://andregarzia.com/2021/01/lua-a-misunderstood-language... some time ago and it kinda touches similar points as the OP. Read on if any of yous want to see yet another person talking about Lua.
Comment linking /2021/01/lua-a-misunderstood-language.html
on “Lua is so underrated”Submitted WhatsApp doesn't understand the web as a story · 174 points
HN discussionLiveCode? https://andregarzia.com/2019/07/livecode-is-a-modern-day-hyp...
Comment linking /2019/07/livecode-is-a-modern-day-hypercard.html
on “HyperCard Simulator”Submitted Apple Just Lost Me as a story · 154 points
HN discussionCouple years ago I wrote a blog post about how LiveCode is a modern day HyperCard: https://andregarzia.com/2019/07/livecode-is-a-modern-day-hyp... I still believe that people who enjoy HyperCard or want to experience something similar but with current day comforts should check HyperCard out. Oh, while I wrote that post I was working for LiveCode but I'm no longer with them. Still like them a lot though.
Comment linking /2019/07/livecode-is-a-modern-day-hypercard.html
on “Hypercard Simulator”Submitted Tell HN: Unable to login to HN from Firefox, a Lovecraftian tale as a story · 144 points
HN discussionI made two webextensions that can discover blogrolls: https://andregarzia.com/2024/05/feed-and-blogrolls-discovery... Also https://blogcat.org has the same feature but is a full blog reader. It is cool to surface blogrolls like that.
Comment linking /2024/05/feed-and-blogrolls-discovery.html
on “Blog Feeds”Submitted LiveCode is a modern day HyperCard (2019) as a story · 139 points
HN discussionHey, I took some time to write a reply to that post showing a modern day alternative: https://andregarzia.com/2019/07/livecode-is-a-modern-day-hyp... I posted another comment linking to a modern day HyperCard that was downvoted without any explanation? I don't understand why it happened. Can someone tell me?
Comment linking /2019/07/livecode-is-a-modern-day-hypercard.html
on “Why Hypercard Had to Die (2011)”Submitted Lua, a Misunderstood Language as a story · 138 points
HN discussionI wrote about this in: https://andregarzia.com/2021/01/lua-a-misunderstood-language... I like 1 based indexes and the globals don't hurt me on my projects. It is like JS, it has its own bits that are different than other languages, once you learn them you see that it is mostly fine.
Comment linking /2021/01/lua-a-misunderstood-language.html
on “Why I chose Lua for this blog”Submitted Writing a Technical Book as a story · 125 points
HN discussionI have written a post on the topic of writing a technical book recently which might interest people who are thinking about doing it: https://andregarzia.com/2021/04/writing-a-technical-book.htm... I have also launched a free eBook generation SaaS at: https://little.webby.press it is completely client-side, there are no accounts and no tracking, just have fun building your own books.
Comment linking /2021/04/writing-a-technical-book.html
on “So you want to self-publish books and courses on programming”Submitted A Year with the Surface Go as a story · 116 points
HN discussionThere is a solid Windows ARM64 laptop, sort of: Microsoft's Surface Pro X. The main problem, as far as I can tell, is that there are few native ARM apps for Windows (though the MS Edge browser is native ARM64), and the machine is limited to running x86-32 (no 64 bit) apps through a translation layer, which makes the apps seem slow and makes the machine power hungry. But I would definitely consider getting one if I p…
Comment linking /2019/12/a-week-with-the-surface-pro-x.html
on “The 2020 MacBook Air”Submitted Retaking the web browser, one small step at a time as a story · 92 points
HN discussionCouple years ago, I wrote a commentary inspired by this post highlighting that there is a readly available HyperCard-like system called LiveCode. I went on to demonstrate the creation of the same project and some more. It is basically the same source. https://andregarzia.com/2019/07/livecode-is-a-modern-day-hyp... PS: I no longer work for LiveCode but I did back when I wrote that article.
Comment linking /2019/07/livecode-is-a-modern-day-hypercard.html
on “Why Hypercard had to die (2011)”Submitted While we blink, we lose the Web (a rant on WebKit/Blink monoculture) as a story · 70 points
HN discussionI just wrote a "Gemini is a little gem"[1] inspired by the OP article. I think that most criticism of Gemini kinda misses some important aspects of the ecosystem and ethos behind the protocol. [1]: https://andregarzia.com/2022/01/gemini-is-a-little-gem.html
Comment linking /2022/01/gemini-is-a-little-gem.html
on “Gemini is Solutionism”Submitted Lua, a Misunderstood Language (2021) as a story · 59 points
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