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Ben Dodson
Personal blog · bendodson.com/weblogprogramming
Ben Dodson's personal blog at bendodson.com covers programming. Since 2009, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “iTunes Artwork Finder”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite Ben Dodson's weblog for its notes on iOS 7 retina graphics and on a Moo card player project. The comments reference the posts as sources without judging them.
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.
Ben Dodson is a UK-based freelance Apple app developer and consultant specialising in native apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, and Vision Pro.
Most-linked posts?
- iTunes Artwork Finder2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-04-10
What Hacker News says?
Nope, it's an iOS 7 feature. Retina iPads have done this since iOS 5, since that is when the iPad 3 was introduced, but non-retina iPads used non-retina graphics until iOS 7. See http://www.iphonehacks.com/2013/07/ios-7-uses-retina-assets-... and http://bendodson.com/weblog/2013/10/16/dropping-non-retina-s...
Comment linking /weblog/2013/10/16/dropping-non-retina-support-in-ios7/
on “iOS 7 only is the only sane thing to do”Submitted Goodbye Gowalla - "How Wrong They Got It" as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWow I just built something very much like this. For Album artwork I recommend iTunes Artwork Finder[1], which can pull high res artwork from anything on iTunes. "Under the Pink" is on there. I looked into using Moo cards as well, but also came to the conclusion that printing 50 at a time was less than ideal. So I ended up matte photo printing the art (normal 4"x6" prints) and sandwiching some 110lb card stock betwee…
Comment linking /projects/itunes-artwork-finder/
on “Moo Card Player”Submitted Postmortem of a Top Paid iOS App as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted iTunes Artwork Finder as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The inside story on powering Highlights as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to pitch an app idea to an iPhone dev as a story · 1 points
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