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Coyote Cartography
Personal blog · micro.coyotetracks.orgprogrammingproductivity
Coyote Cartography is a personal blog at micro.coyotetracks.org about programming and productivity. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The Mac and the iPad aren’t meeting in the middle yet”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on Apple's Mac and iPad/iOS product direction, a BBEdit 14 review, and why jailbroken iOS can't run macOS apps. Comments cite these posts as background for their own points.
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?
- The Mac and the iPad aren’t meeting in the middle yet2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-23
- BBEdit 14, and why you should care2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-21
What Hacker News says?
For those curious, I wrote a review the other day called "BBEdit 14, and why you should care": https://micro.coyotetracks.org/2021/07/19/bbedit-and-why.htm... (And yes, I know many of you may have valid reasons not to care, but I was aiming mostly at Mac users who think "oh, I remember BBEdit" but haven't used it in a decade or more.)
Comment linking /2021/07/19/bbedit-and-why.html
on “BBEdit 14”Submitted You're So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is About You: On Meta and Mastodon as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI wrote about why I think that's exceedingly unlikely back in April, knowing that there was a chance I'd be proven wrong just two months later (i.e., today). I wasn't. https://micro.coyotetracks.org/2021/04/21/the-mac-and.html My argument from there is that Apple has been demonstrating a consistent philosophy since the start of the iPad: - Macs are general purpose computers - iPads/iPhones are application consoles,…
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on “Jailbroken iOS can't run macOS apps. I spent a week to find out why”Submitted BBEdit 14, and why you should care as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've written about this before, in "The Mac and the iPad aren't meeting in the middle yet": https://micro.coyotetracks.org/2021/04/21/the-mac-and.html While I won't repeat myself too much, my basic point is that Apple sees iOS (and iPadOS) devices as application consoles and Macs as general purpose computers, and there is no good business case for changing that any time soon. The Venn diagram of "users likely to wal…
Comment linking /2021/04/21/the-mac-and.html
on “Unifying iPadOS and macOS”Submitted The Mac and the iPad aren’t meeting in the middle yet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI was just about to come here and mention Micro.blog, and I'm impressed someone beat me to it. :) Of course, you can do it for even more cheaply than that if you're a bit technically savvy and willing to put in the effort. I like the idea of newsletters, but they strike me as a different kind of solution. Micro.blog is a great compromise between being Twitter-like and still allowing longer blog posts. (And still cro…
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