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arno.org is a personal blog at arno.org about history and hardware. Since 2009, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “The Origins of DS_store (2006)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link Arno's posts by the former Mac OS X Finder lead, mainly the origins of .DS_Store, and also the OS X shutdown menu, early iPad-era Mac work and Flash optimisation.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
After a tech career at Adobe and Apple, Arno travels the world to capture beautiful landscapes with his camera.
Most-linked posts?
- The Origins of DS_store (2006)7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-06-28
- The Design of the Mac OS X Shutdown Feature2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-02-05
What Hacker News says?
https://www.arno.org/on-the-origins-of-ds-store linked from original Hacker News thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40870357
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on “Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities”Submitted The Origins of DS_store (2006) as a story · 554 points
HN discussionRelated: The former lead of the OS X Finder explains the origins of .DS_Store: http://arno.org/arnotify/2006/10/on-the-origins-of-ds_store/
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on “Death to .DS_Store”Submitted On the Origins of DS_Store (2006) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere's a good story about the shutdown menu in Vista, and how it came to be: Original rant by Joel Spolsky: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/21.html Answer from the guy working on the shutdown menu: http://moishelettvin.blogspot.no/2006/11/windows-shutdown-cr... Another response from the guy that implemented the OSX shutdown menu: http://arno.org/arnotify/2006/11/the-design-of-the-mac-os-x-...
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on “Microsoft is Dead (2007)”Submitted The Design of the Mac OS X Shutdown Feature as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> from my knowledge .DS_Store is something everyone hates and no one actually benefits from, Small correction then; "something non-mac users hate and non-mac users don't benefit from" I doubt you'll ever hear a Mac user advocate for DS_Store files because by design they do their job best when you never realize they exist. I think for __some__ users once they realize icon positions are maintained there, they'll be a…
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on “Explainer: .DS_Store Files”We were trying to build an iPad with 1992 technology. http://arno.org/arnotify/2010/01/penmac/
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on “The Graphing Calculator Story (2004)”sitting in multi-touch session at AdobeMAX... yes, for iPhone. Will check out the AIR session (for "mobile") on Wed. A lot of sessions that were titled "for Mobile" have changed to "for iPhone": http://arno.org/arnotify/2009/10/max-2009-adobe-air-2-0-and-...
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on “Flash Professional CS5 will build native iPhone and iPod Touch applications”Here's a brief and somewhat interesting explanation for why it exists, from Arno, the tech lead at the time (2006): https://www.arno.org/on-the-origins-of-ds-store
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on “Ask HN: What are the technical justifications for keeping .DS_Store?”AS3 is still ECMAScript, just a newer version of it. I do agree they're being left behind in optimization, after leading the pack for a while. Thankfully they're aware of it and they're working on it. Here's something that explains some of the optimizations they're doing to the player: http://arno.org/arnotify/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Flash-Ca... It's more about the multi-processor support (e.g network loading and…
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on “V8 benchmark run against ActionScript in a wide amount of browsers/FlashPlayerss”I think it may be a joke. Apparently it stands for "Desktop Services Store". https://www.arno.org/on-the-origins-of-ds-store
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on “macOS 13.5 source code released”.DS_Store has a origin story though not as entertaining https://www.arno.org/on-the-origins-of-ds-store
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