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Ben Collier

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Ben Collier's personal blog at bencollier.net covers programming and web. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Unable to open links in Safari, Mail or Messages on iOS 9.3”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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8mentions?
5HN people?
2016–2016first – last linked?

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Ben Collier's posts about the iOS 9.3 bug that stopped links opening in Safari, Mail and Messages, including a workaround. Comments are mostly bare links and cite the posts as sources.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Ben Collier is a mobile application developer based in Brighton, UK, this is his personal blog where he writes about tips and offers fixes and tips to the problems he encounter in Mobile App Development, iOS, Mac OSX, HTML5, CSS3, web standards and usability.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Unable to open links in Safari, Mail or Messages on iOS 9.3
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-28
  2. Unable to open links in iOS 9.3 bug – fix and tech write-up
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. chris_wot · 2016-03-30
    https://bencollier.net/2016/03/unable-to-open-links-in-safar... http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/28/technology/iphone-safari-bug... http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/28/its-not-just-you-clicking-o... http://www.news.com.au/technology/gadgets/mobile-phones/new-... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/27/apple_safari_bug/ http://m.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&obj... http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/g…

    Comment linking /2016/03/unable-to-open-links-in-safari-mail-or-messages-on-ios-9-3/

    on “Introducing Safari Technology Preview”
  2. nardras · 2016-03-28

    Submitted Unable to open links in Safari, Mail or Messages on iOS 9.3 as a story · 231 points

    HN discussion
  3. ben_c · 2016-03-29
    I've put up a convoluted but working workaround here - https://bencollier.net/2016/03/how-to-fix-ios-9-3s-broken-sa...

    Comment linking /2016/03/how-to-fix-ios-9-3s-broken-safari-links/

    on “Unable to open links in Safari, Mail or Messages on iOS 9.3”
  4. ben_c · 2016-03-30

    Submitted Bots please: Slack needs a news feed as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. maxwell · 2016-11-28
    Agree on all points. iOS is limited by the inability to develop iOS apps on iOS devices, because software not hardware. (Same for Android of course.) Swift Playgrounds suggests they're moving in that direction, but it looks like a very far cry from Xcode. Hardware-wise, the iPad Pro, new MacBook, and new MBP seem to be closing in on convergence to an "iPadBook" (too bad the iBooks app means no resurrection of the iB…

    Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2010/10/20101021-075628.jpg

    on “The Macintosh Endgame”
  6. jameswragg · 2016-03-29

    Submitted Unable to open links in iOS 9.3 bug – fix and tech write-up as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. ben_c · 2016-04-22

    Submitted The trouble with the Apple Watch's repair process as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. ben_c · 2016-03-31

    Submitted Apple have fixed the iOS 9.3 link issue with a software update – Here's how as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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