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Ariel Elkin

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Ariel Elkin's personal blog at arielelkin.github.io covers programming and career. Since 2016, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Why I'm not a React Native developer”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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17mentions?
14HN people?
2016–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its digital estate planning framework, a protocol for handing over digital assets after death using encryption and secret-sharing. The comments only summarise and cite it.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Why I'm not a React Native developer
    11 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2016-09-22
  2. Why I'm Not a React Native Developer
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-09-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. Here's a framework and protocol for handling your digital assets after your death: https://arielelkin.github.io/articles/digital-estate-plannin... TL;DR: You need a digital estate planning protocol that is comprehensive, privacy-preserving, reliable, and convenient. The best solution is to use a secret-sharing scheme. The following sequence is suggested: 1. Alice encrypts her digital testament using a symmetric encr…

    Comment linking /articles/digital-estate-planning

    on “Ask HN: How will you manage your digital assets when you die?”
  2. Submitted Why I'm Not a React Native Developer as a story · 362 points

    HN discussion
  3. To be fair, I didn't spend a ton of time on it and I'm probably wrong about many of my impressions, but... My impression is that it's "native" only in the loosest sense of the word. On iOS, it creates a single view controller and then draws everything in there, I guess technically with UIView objects? But there is no use of native controls, so you're at the mercy of whatever crappy controls someone has created. Qual…

    Comment linking /articles/why-im-not-a-react-native-developer.html

    on “Basecamp 3 for iOS: Hybrid Architecture”
  4. Submitted Why I'm not a React Native developer as a story · 195 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Why I'm Not a React Native Developer as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
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  13. Submitted How will you pass on your digital assets after death? Here's a framework as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Why Ariel Elkin Isn't a React Native Developer as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Sync and stream your entire music collection with two Docker commands as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted Why I'm Not a React Native Developer as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Why I'm Not a React Native Developer as a story · 1 points

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