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FlexMonkey
Personal blog · flexmonkey.blogspot.comprogrammingdesign
FlexMonkey is a personal blog at flexmonkey.blogspot.com about programming and design. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “A First Look at Metal Performance on the iPad Pro”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog as a reference for GPU particle simulation on Apple hardware, such as Metal performance on an iPad Pro. One commenter notes the author provides the source code on GitHub.
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.
Creative Coding in Swift
Most-linked posts?
- A First Look at Metal Performance on the iPad Pro2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-12
What Hacker News says?
From what I've read, you can get pretty good performance on an iPad Pro. Here's 8M pixels: http://flexmonkey.blogspot.com/2015/11/a-first-look-at-metal... The author provides the source. Portable to the Mac? https://github.com/FlexMonkey/ParticleLab
Comment linking /2015/11/a-first-look-at-metal-performance-on.html
on “Show HN: Particle Simulation with OpenGL compute shader – 8M particles”Submitted The Plum-O-Meter: Weighing Plums Using 3D Touch in Swift as a story · 132 points
HN discussionSubmitted A First Look at Metal Performance on the iPhone 6s as a story · 63 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simulating Bokeh with Dilation and Hexagonal Probes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sweetcorn: A Node Based Core Image Kernel Builder as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted PencilSynth – An Apple Pencil Controlled Synthesiser as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted PencilController – Using Apple Pencil as a 3D Controller for Image Editing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted PencilScale – Using an Apple Pencil with an iPad Pro as an Electronic Scale as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Smooth Drawing for iOS in Swift with Hermite Spline Interpolation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A First Look at Metal Performance on the iPhone 6s as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Core Image Transverse Chromatic Aberration Filter in Swift (2016) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recreating Kai's Power Tools Goo in Swift as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple Pencil Controlled Christmas Tree Bowling with SceneKit as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scribe: A Swift Handwriting Recognition Component for iOS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A First Look at Metal Performance on the iPad Pro as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 1M Particles on an iPad as a story · 1 points
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