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Arhan's Blog
Personal blog · arhan.sh/blogwritingprogramming
Arhan's Blog is a personal blog at arhan.sh about writing and programming. Since 2024, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Native Instant Space Switching on macOS”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on making macOS space switching instant. Commenters link it as a workaround for the slow switching animation, which they say Reduce motion does not fix.
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.
Arhan's personal website
Most-linked posts?
- Native Instant Space Switching on macOS6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2026-03-23
- The Generativity Pattern in Rust3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-08-04
- How many iconic computing numbers can you recognize?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-23
What Hacker News says?
> Enable the “Reduce motion” setting in System Settings. > This is always the default answer to this question online, and I’m sick of it! It doesn’t even solve the problem, but rather replaces it with an equally useless fade-in animation. https://arhan.sh/blog/native-instant-space-switching-on-maco...
Comment linking /blog/native-instant-space-switching-on-macos/
on “Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman”Submitted Native Instant Space Switching on macOS as a story · 7 points
HN discussionDoesn't excuse it but in case you or other readers are unaware, there are some ways to mitigate it: https://arhan.sh/blog/native-instant-space-switching-on-maco...
Comment linking /blog/native-instant-space-switching-on-macos/
on “Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman”Submitted The Generativity Pattern in Rust as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted How many iconic computing numbers can you recognize? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Memory-Corrupting Pong as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Native Instant Space Switching on macOS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Native Instant Space Switching on macOS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Turning Image Corruption into Art as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My GitHub repository has 100k contributors as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bring Back the Paragraph as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Generativity Pattern in Rust as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Native Instant Space Switching on macOS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Generativity Pattern in Rust as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Many Iconic Computing Numbers Can You Recognize? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing strict equality in JavaScript from scratch as a story · 1 points
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