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Dave DeLong

Personal blog · davedelong.com/blogprogrammingcareer

Dave DeLong's personal blog at davedelong.com covers programming and career. Since 2017, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “The Laws of Core Data”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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11mentions?
7HN people?
2017–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2018

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Suggested in an HN thread asking for great iOS and Swift blogs, where a commenter lists it alongside Khanlou's blog. The commenter's praise is aimed at Khanlou, not this blog.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

He’s just this guy, you know?

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Laws of Core Data
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-10
  2. Adventures in Advent of Code
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-03
  3. If iPads were meant for kids
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-04-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. wool_gather · 2018-10-19
    Not mentioned yet: Souroush Khanlou http://khanlou.com is always at the top of my list. Thoughtful and very practical material. Also Dave DeLong: https://davedelong.com/blog/ > I’ve missed Swift 2 & 3 In some ways this is an advantage to you. There was a fair bit of churn in that time period. Things have settled reasonably well now.

    Comment linking /blog/

    on “Ask HN: Great iOS / Swift Blogs?”
  2. nmcfarl · 2018-04-08

    Submitted If iPads were meant for kids as a story · 75 points

    HN discussion
  3. Austin_Conlon · 2020-12-19

    Submitted The Laws of Core Data as a story · 72 points

    HN discussion
  4. ingve · 2022-12-03

    Submitted Adventures in Advent of Code as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  5. ingve · 2018-04-07

    Submitted If iPads were meant for kids as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  6. Austin_Conlon · 2020-10-27

    Submitted Series on building a Swift HTTP framework as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. okket · 2018-05-10

    Submitted The Laws of Core Data as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. kaseyb002 · 2017-11-10

    Submitted A Better MVC in iOS as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. ingve · 2023-03-04

    Submitted Handy Git Customizations as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. todsacerdoti · 2022-12-03

    Submitted Adventures in Advent of Code as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. ingve · 2020-02-29

    Submitted Time, a New Swift Package as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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