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Craig Hockenberry
Personal blog · furbo.orgprogrammingdesign
Craig Hockenberry's personal blog at furbo.org covers programming and design. Since 2007, 91 different Hacker News readers have linked it 149 times, most often “What happens when DNS in China is poisoned and pointed at your server”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 2 of 30 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly cite Craig Hockenberry's blog as a source: the 2015 China traffic-attack charts, the origin of 'tweet', Twitterrific's firsts, and macOS and App Store security posts.
- Recommended for · 2 comments
- Called some fun history on the origin of 'tweet', and the blog worth following.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 30 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
furbo.org is Craig Hockenberry's place to write for the web. He makes app and runs websites.
Most-linked posts?
- What happens when DNS in China is poisoned and pointed at your server7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2015-01-22
- The origin of “tweet” at Twitter (2013)5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-02-03
- I Left My System Fonts in San Francisco5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-07-09
- iCloud Clusterfuck4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-09-04
- Jsc: My New Best Friend3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-08-25
- Why are third parties important in the Twitter ecosystem?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-03-12
- Furbo.org – The Terminal3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-09-03
- In-App Browsers Considered Harmful3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-09-24
- The Origin of Tweet3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-06-29
- Apple’s Lenovo3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-11-05
What Hacker News says?
It only really ramped up this year. http://furbo.org/2015/01/22/fear-china/
Comment linking /2015/01/22/fear-china/
on “China's Man-On-the-Side Attack on GitHub”Submitted At as a story · 520 points
HN discussionThis isn't the first time [0] China has been accused of using it's filtering to DDoS enemies. It's not a secret weapon really, it's an obvious capability of being able to redirect a large majority of your country's internet traffic at will. [0] http://furbo.org/2015/01/22/fear-china/
Comment linking /2015/01/22/fear-china/
on “GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack”Submitted An apology... as a story · 367 points
HN discussionFor what it's worth there's an article[1] from Craig Hockenberry. His servers were hit by massive amounts of traffic from China earlier this year, targeted (randomly?) at Iconfactory's website. The charts are quite impressive. [1] http://furbo.org/2015/01/22/fear-china/
Comment linking /2015/01/22/fear-china/
on “GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack”Submitted A Health Update as a story · 351 points
HN discussionTaking a step makes it worse than doing nothing? How would you go about it? iOS defaults to rendering sRGB (and Apple's devices do it pretty accurately [1][2]) so nothing changes for legacy images, unless your content or code specifically asks for P3. Xcode and the App Store also handles thinning/slicing so that wide color content is only delivered to and stored on devices that can display it. [3] Pretty much all of…
Comment linking /color/WideGamut/
on “Practical Color Theory for People Who Code”Submitted What happens when DNS in China is poisoned and pointed at your server as a story · 158 points
HN discussion> and all their other "new paradigm" platforms also initially shipped with no software (Mac, iPhone, iPad). The mainstream usage of these devices is really based on what developers built for them in the first couple years after release... Unless AVP is an exception to the rule... what about Apple Watch, AppleTV and HomePod? Those don't have the app success story of the Mac, iPhone and iPad. There's two paths that le…
Comment linking /2024/01/29/the-next-40/
on “Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it's not”Submitted The Rise and Fall of the Independent Developer as a story · 143 points
HN discussionGenerating a 301 is likely more work. Profile pages are simple database hits, and they may be dynamically or even statically cached (for popular pages). You're probably severely underestimating how much traffic China can produce [1]. 1. http://furbo.org/2015/01/22/fear-china/
Comment linking /2015/01/22/fear-china/
on “GitHub hit by DDoS attack”Submitted The origin of “tweet” at Twitter (2013) as a story · 120 points
HN discussionWell, that sucks. That effectively makes HTTPS worthless there doesn't it? Also on the other link I have seen another relevant article [0] on how BitTorrent could be used for attacks from China. Scary stuff. [0] http://furbo.org/2015/01/22/fear-china/
Comment linking /2015/01/22/fear-china/
on “GitHub hit by DDoS attack”Submitted Jsc: My New Best Friend as a story · 105 points
HN discussion> Yes, and as I already wrote: "Apple has done that for both platforms." Yes I saw it the first time. They certainly did it. But we're talking about how well they did it, aren't we? Usability and polish? > I'm not particularly fond of Snow Leopard over other releases, nor I see much "regression since then". You clearly aren't and clearly don't, but quite a few macOS users are, and do. Here's a sampling of regression…
Comment linking /2015/05/05/discoveryd-clusterfuck/
on “macOS 10.15 Vista”Submitted Making Software Fun as a story · 97 points
HN discussionI hesitate entering my credentials because of http://furbo.org/2014/09/24/in-app-browsers-considered-harmf...
Comment linking /2014/09/24/in-app-browsers-considered-harmful/
on “Show HN: Airtable, a real-time spreadsheet-database hybrid”Submitted Swift Changes Considered Harmful as a story · 47 points
HN discussionFor context: https://furbo.org/2026/01/01/the-year-that-kicked-my-ass/
Comment linking /2026/01/01/the-year-that-kicked-my-ass/
on “A Health Update”Submitted Discoveryd Clusterfuck as a story · 36 points
HN discussionBest of luck to Craig. If you don't know who he is, he's the reason we call(ed) Twitter posts 'tweets' [1] and also wrote perhaps the first pre-SDK iPhone app from the outside [2]. [1] https://furbo.org/2013/06/28/the-origin-of-tweet/ [2] https://furbo.org/2007/08/19/mobiletwitterrific/
Comment linking /2007/08/19/mobiletwitterrific/
on “A Health Update”Submitted Consistency Sin as a story · 32 points
HN discussionAre you running any electron apps that have not yet been updated to use the most recent upstream electron? https://furbo.org/2025/10/06/tahoe-electron-detector/ I've got a couple things that I use which aren't yet up-to-date, and are blocking my upgrade.
Comment linking /2025/10/06/tahoe-electron-detector/
on “Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software”Submitted The Future of Interaction as a story · 32 points
HN discussionCraig Hockenberry noted the problems with cert caching two years ago[1]. [1] http://furbo.org/2013/10/21/mac-app-store-receipts-and-maver...
Comment linking /2013/10/21/mac-app-store-receipts-and-mavericks/
on “Mac Store Apps Stopped Working Due to Expired Security Certificate”Submitted The Shit Show as a story · 31 points
HN discussionNo mention of the fact that CSS actually has a mechanism to use OS system fonts? 'caption', 'menu', 'message-box' are all, for example, available system fonts. This is actually a bit of a quirk in the syntax of the CSS 'font' property - http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/fonts.html#font-shorthand - in that it's not strictly only a shorthand for size/style/family properties, because you can use 'message-box' as a complete fo…
Comment linking /2015/07/09/i-left-my-system-fonts-in-san-francisco/
on “System shock: A story of a 25-year-old font coming back with a vengeance”Submitted Blank turns your TV screen black until you press any button on a remote as a story · 30 points
HN discussionFor those unfamiliar with Craig Hockenberry, he is a talented developer with high standing in the Mac and iOS developer communities. He writes at http://furbo.org and wrote the book, “iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual” ( http://appdevmanual.com/ ).
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on “How much did Twitteriffic for iOS cost to develop? Craig Hockenberry answers.”Submitted Un-fucking-believable as a story · 21 points
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