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Helge Heß
Personal blog · alwaysrightinstitute.comprogrammingsystems
Helge Heß's personal blog at alwaysrightinstitute.com covers programming and systems. Since 2017, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “An Introduction to WebObjects, in Swift”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this personal site for pages about the author's software: archived NeXT-era demos and SwiftWebUI, a project for writing SwiftUI views that display in a web browser. Comments are neutral links.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Software engineer.
Most-linked posts?
- An Introduction to WebObjects, in Swift2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-06-02
- DynamicCallable: Unix Tools as Swift Functions2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-12-21
What Hacker News says?
Seems like some demos around 2019 are still available: http://www.alwaysrightinstitute.com/wo-intro/
Comment linking /wo-intro/
on “What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT?”Submitted SwiftWebUI as a story · 405 points
HN discussionSwiftWebUI [0], "write SwiftUI Views which display in a web browser." HN discussion [1] from last year of SwiftWebUI. [0] https://www.alwaysrightinstitute.com/swiftwebui/ [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20320820
Comment linking /swiftwebui/
on “Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 14”Submitted Show HN: PL/Swift – PostgreSQL Functions in Swift as a story · 84 points
HN discussionLike this? http://www.alwaysrightinstitute.com/swift-dynamic-callable/
Comment linking /swift-dynamic-callable/
on “Writing custom tools with Swift”Submitted Async I/O for Dummies (2018) as a story · 61 points
HN discussionOn a somewhat related note: http://www.alwaysrightinstitute.com/microexpress/
Comment linking /microexpress/
on “Server-Side Swift from Scratch”Submitted An Introduction to WebObjects, in Swift as a story · 37 points
HN discussionAlthough the comparison with the ASP.net clone sounds like an insult to WO, you are right: we definitely have moved past this! :-) As outlined in the article: http://www.alwaysrightinstitute.com/wo-intro/#web-20-ajax-an... Though funny enough client side frameworks today are plagued by pretty much the same issues WO had on the server side. (or in other words: the web is a document platform, not very well suited for…
Comment linking /wo-intro/
on “An Introduction to WebObjects, in Swift”Submitted DynamicCallable: Unix Tools as Swift Functions as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Direct to SwiftUI as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted DynamicCallable: Unix Tools as Swift Functions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted C String Functions in Swift – A Malloc'y Story as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Build iOS Apps with VisualStudio Code. Or Not? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hosting WebAssembly in Swift as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: SwiftyLinkerKit – A Raspi LinkerKit API in Swift and a SwiftNIO IRC Bot as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swift NIO Tutorial: Write an Express-like micro webframework from scratch as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted C String Functions in Swift – A Malloc'y Story as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted @Model for CoreData as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flutter for SwiftUI Developers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flutter for SwiftUI Developers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Async/Await for iOS 14 and Before as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hosting WebAssembly in Swift as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deploying Swift on AWS Lambda as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted DynamicCallable: Unix Tools as Swift Functions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bringing Swift NIO to the iPhone as a story · 1 points
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