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Gui Rambo
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Gui Rambo writes Rambo Codes, a personal blog at rambo.codes about programming and security. Since 2018, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Distributing Mac apps outside the App Store, a quick start guide”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Gui Rambo writes about his coding and reverse engineering adventures.
Most-linked posts?
- Distributing Mac apps outside the App Store, a quick start guide3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-01-08
- Cracking the Dave and Buster's Anomaly3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-05-12
- The big Facebook crash of 2020 and the problem of third-party SDK creep2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-07
- How a single line of code could brick your iPhone2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-26
- Writing command line interfaces for iOS apps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-02
What Hacker News says?
Here are my favourites: https://www.natashatherobot.com https://www.swiftbysundell.com http://whatsnewinswift.com https://rambo.codes And sporadically, I'll write a few myself: http://blog.chrishannah.me/category/swift-tips/
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on “Ask HN: Great iOS / Swift Blogs?”Submitted Apple has locked me out of my developer account as a story · 1019 points
HN discussion> However I quickly realized that the behaviors I want the app to do require a bunch of accessibility permissions Which behaviours specifically? Personally, I wouldn't worry too much about the App Store. I'm distributing Enso ( http://enso.sonnet.io ) via gumroad.com, and people download/pay for it. I think it's easier than using the App Store Connect route anyway. Here's a good intro: https://rambo.codes/posts/2021…
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on “MacWhisper: Transcribe audio files on your Mac”Submitted SiriSpy – iOS bug allowed apps to eavesdrop on your conversations with Siri as a story · 551 points
HN discussionSubmitted How a single line of code could brick your iPhone as a story · 501 points
HN discussionSubmitted Distributing Mac apps outside the App Store, a quick start guide as a story · 308 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking with private APIs on iPad as a story · 73 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cracking the Dave and Buster's Anomaly as a story · 59 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cracking the Dave and Buster's Anomaly as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted CloudKit 101 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted iOS denial-of-service using Darwin notifications as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Weird iOS Bug in Messages App as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The big Facebook crash of 2020 and the problem of third-party SDK creep as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating custom extension points for Mac apps with ExtensionKit as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A macOS bug could have allowed for a serious phishing attack against users as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming the ESP8266 on an M1 Mac as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Distributing Mac apps outside the App Store, a quick start guide as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The big iOS Facebook SDK crash as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing command line interfaces for iOS apps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing command line interfaces for iOS apps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You can use SwiftUI today as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Privacy Mechanism That Backfired as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Distributing Mac apps outside the App Store, a quick start guide as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A document-based app in Swift Playgrounds for iPad as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted MVC: Many View Controllers as a story · 1 points
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