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Andy Ibanez
Personal blog · andyibanez.com/postsprogramming
Andy Ibanez's personal blog at andyibanez.com covers programming. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post on Safari's date-picker, which argues the control causes customer support problems. Comments discuss the control's design history, such as the older wheel-style picker.
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.
A blog where I write about the stuff that interests me and the knowledge I’ve picked up over the years. Expect a lot of iOS development content, along with scripting, automation, and the occasional side topic.
What Hacker News says?
> What do you think would be a better solution? Better configurability which would let the author decide whether they want a calendar or a straight date input. Though I'm not sure iOS even supports a calendar-less date input anymore. This is what the "date" control looked before iOS 14: https://i.stack.imgur.com/ms5tX.png Rolling back the entire "flat" shit would probably be a good idea: before iOS 7, the control wa…
Comment linking /img/date_picker_pre_7.png
on “Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues”Submitted Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason as a story · 547 points
HN discussion> Look at the UI: The grey bar connects the month and year, making it seem visually as if they would move together. It does not, that interpretation does not make any sense. Although I do agree that the old skeymorphic iteration of the control which made it clear those are wheels and the bar is an index was infinitely clearer: https://www.andyibanez.com/img/date_picker_pre_7.png
Comment linking /img/date_picker_pre_7.png
on “Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues”Submitted Modern Concurrency in Swift: Introduction as a story · 1 points
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