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Code by Kevin
Personal blog · codebykevin.comprogrammingsystems
Code by Kevin is a personal blog at codebykevin.com about programming and systems. Since 2008, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for the Port Authority MacPorts GUI app and for notes on building Mac UIs with Tk. The comments cite the app and site without judging the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- /portauthority.html3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2008-03-07
What Hacker News says?
This was my first issue with it too. It makes it feel clunky and slow. The UI is generally not that great anyway. E.g. updating and upgrading is too complicated. There should be one button to do it. And it should update automatically when launching. The sheet that shows the output of an upgrade command does not have clickable links if something fails. It's also really small. Even then always unfinished [PortAuthorit…
Comment linking /portauthority.html
on “Cakebrew: The Mac App for Homebrew”Submitted App Store Rejection as positive feedback as a story · 26 points
HN discussionThe link [5] in my top-level comment plus http://www.tkdocs.com/tutorial/fonts.html should answer your questions. The former has screenshots of Tk on macOS and discusses how to make it look good there. There is a screenshot of a commercial Mac application built with Tk at http://www.codebykevin.com/portauthority.html . Tile was integrated into Tk with version 8.5 (2007). The Tile button, label, etc. are now built in.
Comment linking /portauthority.html
on “Ask HN: What's the best library for making cross-platform UIs?”Submitted Marc Culler and Tk-Cocoa as a story · 7 points
HN discussionFirst, the basics: Signup with the Apple Developer Connection (ADC)[1]. After that you will want to install XCode. You can get that from the ADC or from the install cd. You should then install macports[2] so that you can easily get BSD tools and utilities. There is also a friendly GUI shareware app called Port Authority[3] you can use to maintain your ports tree. [1] - http://developer.apple.com [2] - http://www.mac…
Comment linking /portauthority.html
on “Ask YC: Mac virgin wants to know, what would you install?”