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Cocoa Is My Girlfriend
Personal blog · cimgf.comprogramming
Cocoa Is My Girlfriend is a personal blog at cimgf.com about programming. Since 2008, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Xcode LLDB Tutorial”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a Cocoa and iOS programming blog, with commenters pointing to its Xcode LLDB debugging tutorial and a post on using version control with Dropbox.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-10-17
- Xcode LLDB Tutorial2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-12-13
What Hacker News says?
Awesome, I wasn't aware of that one. Other good ones I know of are the already mentioned Cocoa with Love http://cocoawithlove.com/ Cocoa is my girlfriend http://www.cimgf.com/ and bbum's weblog-o-matic http://www.friday.com/bbum/
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?”Submitted Cocoa Touch Tutorial - How to build a simple iPhone application as a story · 26 points
HN discussionI'm using it as well since the 1.0 EAP. However, one thing I miss from Xcode (I can't believe I'm saying this) is the handling of breakpoints. As per this article: http://www.cimgf.com/2012/12/13/xcode-lldb-tutorial/ , in Xcode it's possible to change the values of variables on the fly, while debugging, using breakpoints. I don't think that's possible at the moment with AppCode (please correct me if I'm wrong). Havi…
Comment linking /2012/12/13/xcode-lldb-tutorial/
on “JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only”Submitted Magical iPhone View Controllers as a story · 12 points
HN discussionI've been doing this for a while with git as a result of reading this post: http://www.cimgf.com/2008/06/03/version-control-makes-you-a-... works good..
Comment linking /2008/06/03/version-control-makes-you-a-better-programmer/
on “Mercurial (hg) with Dropbox”Submitted Why version control is important for solo developers as a story · 8 points
HN discussionHere is a list of some: http://speirs.org http://mattgemmell.com http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/ http://nshipster.com http://www.objectivesee.com http://www.fruitstandsoftware.com/blog/ http://ashfurrow.com/blog/ http://www.cimgf.com/ http://www.cocoawithlove.com/ All of them extracted from here: http://ashfurrow.com/blog/blog-resources And some more: http://objectivesea.tumblr.com/ http://soff.es/ And finally, this…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: What are the best iOS dev blogs?”Submitted Why So Serious? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't treat your customers like thieves as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Querying Objective-C Data Collections as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cocoa Is My Girlfriend » Don’t Screw Your Customers Over as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating A Happy Appy Song as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cocoa Code Style Guide as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Hacker to microISV: Tagging, Building and Releasing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cocoa: Core Data and Plug-ins as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don’t Blindly Trust D.E.B.B. as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Down with magic strings as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Xcode LLDB Tutorial as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted UITabBarController with UINavigationController Using Interface Builder as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don’t Trust Documentation — Ever as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Record Your Core Animation Animation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dropping NSLog in release builds as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adding iTunes-style search to your Core Data application as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Crash Cocoa as a story · 1 points
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