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Hwee-Boon Yar
Personal blog · hboon.com · on HN as hboonprogrammingproductivity
Hwee-Boon Yar's personal blog at hboon.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 48 times, most often “iOS App Icon Colors in the Year 2015”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
48mentions?
5HN people?
2010–2026first – last linked?
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Hwee-Boon Yar's blog for a 2015 analysis of iOS app icon colours, which one commenter cited as a parallel to Safari favicon colours. Only one comment mentions it.
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.
I write, ship and sell software products. Indie. Writing code in Swift, TypeScript and Ruby. Based in Singapore, working remotely. This is my blog.
Most-linked posts?
- iOS App Icon Colors in the Year 20152 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-12-22
What Hacker News says?
It's a couple years old now, but there's a similar trend towards certain colors in the iOS universe too: http://hboon.com/ios-app-icon-colors-in-the-year-2015/
Comment linking /ios-app-icon-colors-in-the-year-2015/
on “Safari Should Display Favicons in Its Tabs”Submitted How a Developer Spent a Weekend With His Developer Wife as a story · 5 points
HN discussionLocation: Singapore (UTC+8) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Swift (iOS and some macOS) + TypeScript (backend and some frontend) Résumé/CV: https://hboon.com/about/ Email: hboon@motionobj.com Looking for part-time work as I build my own products. More than 20 years experience in software development.
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024)”Submitted My GitHub Punch Card for SimplyTweet as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK - Based in Singapore (GMT+8), work remotely. 15 years in software industry in development and consulting. Enterprise software experience. iOS/OS X developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion. * Architecture and code reviews. * One-time engagement for ideation and product scoping. Lots of experience working across timezones. More details: http://hboon.com/hire/
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2016)”Submitted My Complete Agentic Coding Setup Tech Stack Feb 21 2026 – Updated Jun 29 2026 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI write a weekly iOS dev nugget (often code-related). http://hboon.com/iosdevnuggets/
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on “Ask HN: What newsletters do you read every day or week?”Submitted iOS App Icon Colors in the Year 2015 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK (Freelance) - Based in Singapore (GMT+8), work remotely. 15 years in software industry in development and consulting. Enterprise software experience. iOS/OS X developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion. Limited time for development the next few weeks, but available for architecture and code reviews. Also available for running in-person training for iOS app development for developer and non-dev…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2016)”Submitted Show HN: Demos–provision Digital Ocean w Terraform+deploy front/back end w Kamal as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK (Freelance) - Singapore and remote. Indie iOS/OS X developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion. https://github.com/hboon Twitter: https://twitter.com/hboon Blog: http://hboon.com Email: hboon@motionobj.com LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hboon Relevant experience recently: been the sole tech guy (part-time) for a startup, building both backend and front end for iOS app and API until they can…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2015)”Submitted How a Developer Spent a Weekend With His Developer Wife as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK (Freelance) - Based in Singapore (GMT+8), work remotely. 15 years in software industry in development and consulting. iOS/OS X developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion. Example experience: been the sole tech guy (part-time) for a startup, building both backend and front end for main iOS app, API as well as supplementary tools. Also interested in running in-person training for iOS app develop…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2016)”Submitted I don't use Interface Builder as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK - Based in Singapore (GMT+8), work remotely. 16 years in software industry in development and consulting. Enterprise software experience. iOS/OS X developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion. * App maintenance. Bug fixes, enhancements, keeping track of iOS upgrades * Building of SDKs Experience working across timezones. More details: http://hboon.com/hire/
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2017)”Submitted SimplyTweet Punch Card as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK (Freelance) - Singapore and remote. Indie iOS/OS X developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion. https://github.com/hboon Twitter: https://twitter.com/hboon Blog: http://hboon.com Email: hboon@motionobj.com LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hboon Relevant experience recently: been the sole tech guy (part-time) for a startup, building both backend and front end for main iOS app, API as well as su…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2016)”SEEKING WORK (Freelance) - Based in Singapore (GMT+8), work remotely. 15 years in software industry in development and consulting. iOS/OS X developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion. Example experience: been the sole tech guy (part-time) for a startup, building both backend and front end for main iOS app, API as well as supplementary tools. Also interested in running in-person training for iOS app develop…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2016)”SEEKING WORK - Based in Singapore (GMT+8), work remotely. 16 years in software industry in development and consulting. Enterprise software experience. iOS/macOS app developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion. * App maintenance. Bug fixes, enhancements, keeping track of iOS upgrades * Building of SDKs Experience working across timezones. More details: http://hboon.com/hire/
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2017)”SEEKING WORK - Based in Singapore (GMT+8), work remotely. 15 years in software industry in development and consulting. Enterprise software experience. iOS/OS X developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion. * Architecture and code reviews. * One-time engagement for technical feasibility study and product scoping. * App maintenance. Experience working across timezones. More details: http://hboon.com/hire/
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2016)”SEEKING WORK (Freelance) - Based in Singapore (GMT+8), work remotely. Will travel for on-site training. 15 years in software industry in development and consulting. Enterprise software experience. iOS/OS X developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion. * Architecture and code reviews. * In-person training for iOS app development for developers and non-developers. Separate classes. 10-15 person in a class. Ema…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2016)”SEEKING WORK (Freelance) - Based in Singapore (GMT+8), work remotely. Will travel for on-site training. 15 years in software industry in development and consulting. Enterprise software experience. iOS/OS X developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion. * Architecture and code reviews. * In-person training for iOS app development for developers and non-developers. Separate classes. 10-15 person in a class. Ema…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2016)”SEEKING WORK - Based in Singapore (GMT+8), work remotely, across timezones 17 years in software industry in development and consulting. Enterprise software experience. iOS app developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion. These are examples of how we can work together: * Take a project from ideation to launch * Fix a troublesome issue or component * Building of SDKs * Take over long term app maintenance. Bug…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2018)”SEEKING WORK - Singapore and remote. LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hboon Twitter: https://twitter.com/hboon Blog: http://hboon.com Email: hboon@motionobj.com Indie iOS/OS X developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion. Looking for part-time contract work. Relevant experience recently: been the sole tech guy (part-time) for a startup, building both backend and front end for iOS app and API until they can…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2015)”SEEKING WORK - Based in Singapore (GMT+8), work remotely. 16 years in software industry in development and consulting. Enterprise software experience. iOS/macOS app developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion. These are examples of how we can work together: * App maintenance. Bug fixes, enhancements, keeping track of iOS upgrades * Building of SDKs * Kickstart a project * Fix a troublesome issue or componen…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2017)”SEEKING WORK (Freelance) - Based in Singapore (GMT+8), work remotely. 15 years in software industry. Indie iOS/OS X developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion. Example experience: been the sole tech guy (part-time) for a startup, building both backend and front end for main iOS app, API as well as supplementary tools. Also interested in running in-person training for iOS app development for developer and n…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2016)”SEEKING WORK - Based in Singapore (GMT+8), work remotely. 16 years in software industry in development and consulting. Enterprise software experience. iOS/macOS app developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion. * App maintenance. Bug fixes, enhancements, keeping track of iOS upgrades * Building of SDKs Experience working across timezones. More details: http://hboon.com/hire/
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2017)”I built http://thepaperboard.com/ with my wife over the weekend. It's a gallery of drawings people made with the Paper iPad app and shared on Twitter. We released an iPhone app based on it the next few days. Wrote about it at http://hboon.com/how-a-developer-spent-a-weekend-with-his-de... .
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on “Ask HN: Tell us about your side projects.”SEEKING WORK (Freelance) - Based in Singapore (GMT+8), work remotely. Will travel for on-site training. 15 years in software industry in development and consulting. Enterprise software experience. iOS/OS X developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion. * Architecture and code reviews. * In-person training for iOS app development for developers and non-developers. Separate classes. 10-15 person in a class. Ema…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2016)”SEEKING WORK (Freelance) - Singapore and remote. Indie iOS/OS X developer. Familiar with Obj-C, Swift and RubyMotion. https://github.com/hboon Twitter: https://twitter.com/hboon Blog: http://hboon.com Email: hboon@motionobj.com LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hboon Relevant experience recently: been the sole tech guy (part-time) for a startup, building both backend and front end for main iOS app, API as well as su…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2015)”
