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Buckleyisms.com

Personal blog · buckleyisms.com/blogprogramming

Buckleyisms.com is a personal blog at buckleyisms.com about programming. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “The Case for Message Passing in Swift”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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10mentions?
5HN people?
2014–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its Swift language posts, including one on the case for message passing. The comments only cite or link that post, with no judgement of the writing.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Case for Message Passing in Swift
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-06-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. andrei512 · 2014-06-30
    What do you think is missing from Swift? An AnyFunction type would be great. Also reflection is incomplete and undocumented. Message passing - http://www.buckleyisms.com/home/2014/6/16/the-case-for-messa...

    Comment linking /home/2014/6/16/the-case-for-message-passing-in-swift.html

    on “One month of Swift – We ❤ Swift”
  2. pcr910303 · 2021-08-08

    Submitted The macOS Sandbox File Limit as a story · 172 points

    HN discussion
  3. andrei512 · 2014-06-30
    Message passing - http://www.buckleyisms.com/home/2014/6/16/the-case-for-messa...

    Comment linking /home/2014/6/16/the-case-for-message-passing-in-swift.html

    on “One Month Of Swift”
  4. ingve · 2014-06-27

    Submitted The Case for Message Passing in Swift as a story · 62 points

    HN discussion
  5. pcr910303 · 2020-05-26

    Submitted Apple Should Provide Notarization for Open-Source Apps as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. accrual · 2020-09-14

    Submitted Snes9x on macOS Catalina (2019) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. pcr910303 · 2020-03-17

    Submitted Carbon and Cocoa as a Metaphor for Objective C and Swift as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. pcr910303 · 2020-03-17

    Submitted Fixing Bugs When You Cant Reproduce the Problem as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. pcr910303 · 2020-03-17

    Submitted The Web Ascendant: Five years from 2015(2015) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. bpolania · 2015-07-17

    Submitted MAIKit: A Framework for Sharing Code Between iOS and OS X as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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