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Corbin Dunn
Personal blog · corbinstreehouse.com/blog · on HN as redwoodmonkeyprogrammingdesign
Corbin Dunn writes Corbin's Treehouse, a personal blog at corbinstreehouse.com about programming and design. Since 2018, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “The Sad State of Logging Bugs for Apple”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts by a former Apple UI employee on Apple's software issues, including macOS UI inconsistency (a 2021 post) and how Apple handles developer bug reports.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Sad State of Logging Bugs for Apple3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-03-10
- macOS 12 Monterey and User Interface Inconsistencies2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-11-01
What Hacker News says?
I'm aware of UI inconsistencies, like this dated article below. https://www.corbinstreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/macos-12-monte... But was curious is are people having stability & reliability type of software quality problems.
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on “Apple's Software Quality Crisis”Submitted The Sad State of Logging Bugs for Apple as a story · 263 points
HN discussionHere is my list of solo developer blogs. Usually they are on topic. This does not include personal blogs I follow that happen to be developers. @mdo (Bootstrop) - http://markdotto.com/ Keith Cirkel - https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/ Coding – Corbin's Treehouse - https://www.corbinstreehouse.com/blog Aaditya Purani – Ethical Hacker - https://aadityapurani.com/ Ben Balter - http://ben.balter.com/ fulldecent - https://pr…
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on “Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?”Submitted macOS 12 Monterey and User Interface Inconsistencies as a story · 60 points
HN discussionThis isn't a great answer, because there _is_ some literature to point to concerning how feedback (bugs and otherwise, regarding engineering) is handled at Apple: https://www.corbinstreehouse.com/blog/2019/03/the-sad-state-... The game that Apple's dev evangelism needs to play is the same one that MSFT/Google/etc play. Apple gets a free pass because they've had a largely devoted (almost cult-ish) fanbase of software…
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on “The State of Apple's Developer Documentation”Submitted The Sad State of Logging Bugs for Apple (2019) as a story · 9 points
HN discussionCode to fix problems, even in theory, isn't unnecessary. Statistically, changes I did were very unlikely to produce bugs. I wrote about this in my post about why you shouldn't do code reviews: https://www.corbinstreehouse.com/blog/2018/01/code-reviews-p...
Comment linking /blog/2018/01/code-reviews-part-1-dont-do-them/?cat_id=86&order=DESC
on “The Sad State of Logging Bugs for Apple”Submitted The Sad State of Logging Bugs for Apple (2019) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt's buried in the article: When I worked at Apple I practiced what I am now preaching. I would screen all my bugs within a day or so. I would verify bugs within a week or so. I would poke around at code and attempt to make theoretical fixes for bugs I couldn’t reproduce. I felt like it was part of my job, and I just did these things as a daily task. From Corbin's about page https://www.corbinstreehouse.com/blog/abo…
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on “The Sad State of Logging Bugs for Apple”Submitted Code Reviews, Part 1: Don’t do them as a story · 1 points
HN discussionmacOS I posted this yesterday, macOS is also at fault. Here’s an interest blog post from a former Apple UI employee talking about the growing inconsistency in macOS UI. https://www.corbinstreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/macos-12-monte...
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on “How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 11?”UI inconsistency even pre-venture was getting bad. An post by a former Apple UI employee https://www.corbinstreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/macos-12-monte...
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on “My Controversial Opinion: Ventura Is Apple’s Worst macOS Yet”UI inconsistency in macOS over the years has gotten worse. I don’t notice as many bugs as others, but UI for sure is an issue. Here’s an interest blog post from a former Apple UI employee. https://www.corbinstreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/macos-12-monte...
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on “Mac OS Ventura Issues”