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Ben Scheirman

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Ben Scheirman's personal blog at benscheirman.com covers programming. Since 2013, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-22, and you can follow it by feed.

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7mentions?
7HN people?
2013–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2014

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

Why HN links it

Ben Scheirman's blog covers iOS development. HN readers link his iOS developer toolbelt list and a post on fixing a GitHub SSL error on OS X.

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 is an experienced software engineer from Houston, TX. Currently focused on Swift, iOS, Ruby, and Rust.

Most-linked posts?

  1. /2013/08/the-ios-developers-toolbelt/
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. hol · 2014-01-30Recommends
    There's a really great list here too: http://benscheirman.com/2013/08/the-ios-developers-toolbelt/

    Comment linking /2013/08/the-ios-developers-toolbelt/

    on “What's in my iOS toolbox? ”
  2. hodgesmr · 2014-06-13

    Submitted Regex in Swift as a story · 43 points

    HN discussion
  3. ary · 2014-02-04
    This series of posts appears to be a somewhat poor copy of another blog (although it is linked). http://benscheirman.com/2013/08/the-ios-developers-toolbelt/

    Comment linking /2013/08/the-ios-developers-toolbelt/

    on “What's in my iOS Toolbox? Part 2”
  4. jwolgamott · 2013-08-16

    Submitted 75 Essential Tools for iOS Developers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. gerad · 2014-03-01
    It looks like it was caused by the os x upgrade I did this morning. Here's the cert chain: < https://www.dropbox.com/s/mszr4ntkq9srl6f/Screen%20Shot%2020... Here's one person's fix: < http://benscheirman.com/2014/02/fixing-github-ssl-issue-on-1... Here's the super user thread: < http://superuser.com/questions/605900/why-wont-os-x-trust-gi...

    Comment linking /2014/02/fixing-github-ssl-issue-on-10-dot-9-2/&gt;

    on “ASK HN: Github SSL Error?”
  6. dboeke · 2021-06-11

    Submitted Async/Await and the Future of Combine as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. okket · 2017-06-22

    Submitted Ultimate Guide to JSON Parsing with Swift 4 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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