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High Caffeine Content

Personal blog · blog.steventroughtonsmith.comprogramminghardware

High Caffeine Content is a personal blog at blog.steventroughtonsmith.com about programming and hardware. Since 2010, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “WWDC Wish List”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-01, and you can follow it by feed.

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20mentions?
17HN people?
2010–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2012

Most-linked posts?

  1. WWDC Wish List
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-02-28
  2. 2007's pre-M3 version of Android; the Google Sooner
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-05-05
  3. Lisa Pascal Development in Lisa Workshop
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-06-16
  4. 2007's pre-M3 version of Android; the Google Sooner
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-06
  5. Building Classic Mac OS Apps in OS X
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. chime · 2012-03-28
    During development, I used the hidden http://blog.steventroughtonsmith.com/2009/07/speech-synthesi... API but that doesn't work anymore. I can't wait till Apple makes it available to us. Then I can give my app away for free if I want.

    Comment linking /2009/07/speech-synthesis-on-iphone-3gs.html

    on “Patents Threaten To Silence A Little Girl, Literally”
  2. milen · 2015-01-24

    Submitted Building Classic Mac OS Apps in OS X as a story · 175 points

    HN discussion
  3. kitsunesoba · 2017-10-01
    I can’t speak much for the rest, but old Mac codebases in particular hold up better than you might think. You can write an application that runs on every version of Mac OS from 1.0 (circa 1985) up to High Sierra with just a handful of conditionals through the use of Carbon [0]. Porting pre-OS X software should be similarly simple, given that it’s written in C or C++ (Pascal was somewhat popular for classic Mac apps,…

    Comment linking /post/109040361205/mpw-carbon-and-building-classic-mac-os-apps-in-os

    on “WalmartLabs opensources its tool for bringing React Native to mobile apps”
  4. jeff18 · 2010-02-15

    Submitted Apple's iBooks Dynamic Page Curl as a story · 28 points

    HN discussion
  5. engrenage · 2013-08-26
    You can't expect anyone to take this seriously. The hiptop was nothing like the iPhone. And in 2007 before the iPhone was released Android looked like a blackberry clone: http://blog.steventroughtonsmith.com/2012/05/2007s-pre-m3-ve...

    Comment linking /2012/05/2007s-pre-m3-version-of-android-google.html?m=1

    on “If Steve Ballmer Ran Apple”
  6. rbanffy · 2014-06-16

    Submitted Lisa Pascal Development in Lisa Workshop as a story · 26 points

    HN discussion
  7. mzs · 2013-12-19
    I wondered what Sooner was like, closest I could find: http://blog.steventroughtonsmith.com/2012/05/2007s-pre-m3-ve... There is also a video, pretty similar device.

    Comment linking /2012/05/2007s-pre-m3-version-of-android-google.html

    on “The Day Google Had to 'Start Over' on Android”
  8. zdw · 2018-10-26

    Submitted Lisa Pascal Development in Lisa Workshop as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. fredsir · 2016-02-28

    Submitted WWDC Wish List as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  10. there · 2012-05-05

    Submitted 2007's pre-M3 version of Android; the Google Sooner as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  11. mcculley · 2016-03-17

    Submitted WWDC Wish List as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  12. shawndumas · 2012-05-06

    Submitted 2007's pre-M3 version of Android; the Google Sooner as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  13. joubert · 2016-05-01

    Submitted Native UIKit Apps on Apple Watch as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. tambourine_man · 2016-03-13

    Submitted High Caffeine Content – WWDC Wish List as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. mikecane · 2012-08-25

    Submitted 2007's pre-M3 version of Android; the Google Sooner as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. mikecane · 2012-04-09

    Submitted On Windows Phone 7 and Apps as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Osiris30 · 2016-03-16

    Submitted Steven Troughton-Smith'S WWDC Wish List as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. mikecane · 2013-12-20

    Submitted 2007's pre-M3 version of Android; the Google Sooner as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. yungchin · 2011-08-11

    Submitted Nokia N9 - Meet MeeGo Harmattan as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. mikecane · 2010-05-10

    Submitted PSA for Developers writing iPhone apps that are not Universal as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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