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Blake Crosley
Personal blog · blakecrosley.com/blog · on HN as blakecprogrammingdesign
Blake Crosley's personal blog at blakecrosley.com covers programming and design. Since 2026, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Blake Crosley's blog for a page one commenter says they really like, and for a post on TrueType font-file security and Apple's font interpreter rewrite.
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.
Designer, developer, dad. Founder and design engineer at 941 Apps, maker of Return, Get Bananas, Reps, and 941 Tiles. I build products that make users smile.
What Hacker News says?
I really like that page. I've recently attached a search feature to it with corresponding atom feed. https://hackertrain.future-secured.com/?q=great One thing that's changed over time is a lot more usage of "scare quotes" especially now (Gemini agrees https://share.gemini.google/UiUf0jttZLVD ). It's an interesting phenomenon, Abloh started using quotation marks consistently in his fashion branding since 2012. https:…
Comment linking /blog/design-philosophy-virgil-abloh
on “GPT-6 Sol and Luna”Submitted Arm64e.x1: Apple's Checked Pointer Arithmetic Slice as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere are many documented, exploited-in-the-wild font-file attacks (one example in 1]). Apple is re-writing their font interpreter specifically to improve security. [2] [1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/facebook-disc... [2] https://blakecrosley.com/blog/truetype-hinting-swift-migrati...
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on “F3”Submitted Claude Code Hooks Explained: The Deterministic Layer Around Your Agent as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI wrote it up. The full system reference is here: https://blakecrosley.com/guides/obsidian — vault architecture, hybrid retrieval (Model2Vec + FTS5 + RRF), MCP integration, incremental indexing, operational patterns. Covers everything from a 200-file vault to the 16,000-file setup I run. The hybrid retriever piece has its own deep dive with the RRF math and an interactive fusion calculator: https://blakecrosley.com/…
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on “Stop Burning Your Context Window – How We Cut MCP Output by 98% in Claude Code”Submitted What's New in SwiftUI for iOS 27 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted PixelPaint – A MacPaint tribute for Apple's 50th as a story · 1 points
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