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Iconfactory Blog
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Iconfactory Blog is the company blog at blog.iconfactory.com, writing about design and programming. Since 2015, 45 different Hacker News readers have linked it 47 times, most often “iPad Pro True Tone: Looking at the Future”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- iPad Pro True Tone: Looking at the Future5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-04-21
- What to Expect from Marzipan5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-05-08
- State of the Twitterverse4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-01-13
- WorldWideWeb.app3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-06-02
- Meet Tot – Your Tiny Text Companion3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-02-27
- Push Nope-ifications2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-07-05
- A Lot Can Happen in a Decade2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-06
- Twitterrific Has Been Discontinued2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-19
What Hacker News says?
"A rose by any other name would smell as Marzipan". Even if it's called SwiftUI and not Marzipan, it still has all the same future problems as when it was called Marzipan [1] [1] https://blog.iconfactory.com/2019/05/what-to-expect-from-mar...
Comment linking /2019/05/what-to-expect-from-marzipan/
on “SwiftUI”Submitted WorldWideWeb.app as a story · 288 points
HN discussionA sequel is coming to Apple Arcade: https://blog.iconfactory.com/2021/04/frenzic-overtime-coming...
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on “Fortnite’s cash cow is Playstation, not iOS, court documents reveal”Submitted What to Expect from Marzipan as a story · 172 points
HN discussionAlso see Craig Hockenberry piece, for more on the implications of all this for developers and designers: http://blog.iconfactory.com/2016/04/looking-at-the-future/ One of his key points: As a developer, you’ll quickly realize that the scope of these changes will make your update to Retina graphics look like a walk in the park. Craig is also currently working on a book “that helps you understand color in laymen’s ter…
Comment linking /2016/04/looking-at-the-future/
on “Understanding the 9.7" iPad Pro's Display: How DCI-P3 and True Tone Work”Submitted Notches Gone Wild as a story · 120 points
HN discussionAlso worth noting that he just launched a competing ad network: https://blog.iconfactory.com/2019/01/advertising-with-ollie/
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on “Add limits to amount of JavaScript that can be loaded by a website”Submitted A Lot Can Happen in a Decade as a story · 28 points
HN discussionReminds me Tot by IconFactory. https://blog.iconfactory.com/2020/02/meet-tot-your-tiny-text...
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on “Show HN: NoteUX – Fast and minimalist note-taking app”Submitted Twitterrific Has Been Discontinued as a story · 10 points
HN discussionYour app seems really similar to Tot by Iconfactory: https://blog.iconfactory.com/2020/02/meet-tot-your-tiny-text... That could be the reason you're seeing sales drop?
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on “Indie Support Weeks in the Apple Developer Community”Submitted State of the Twitterverse as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThis title put me into one mindset, which was not at all the right one for the article. At least, I don't think so. I think there exists interaction outside of the Apple ecosystem. First, I think you probably have to have read and understood this prerequisite article about Marzipan - https://blog.iconfactory.com/2019/05/what-to-expect-from-mar... Then, you probably have to live, breathe and dream within the Apple ec…
Comment linking /2019/05/what-to-expect-from-marzipan/
on “The Future of Interaction”Submitted WorldWideWeb, Part II as a story · 4 points
HN discussionCan a “temporary outage” be limited only to the most popular apps? Can a “temporary outage” affect Twitterrific for iOS but not Twitterrific for Mac [0]? [0] https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/state-of-the-twitterver...
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on “The Shit Show”Submitted What to Expect from Marzipan as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLink to actual announcement on their site https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/twitterrific-end-of-an-...
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on “Today Marks the End of an Era”Submitted The New Favicon as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThey said that in the opening paragraph: "We are sorry to say that the app's sudden and undignified demise is due to an unannounced and undocumented policy change by an increasingly capricious Twitter". That sentence links to this post which explains in more detail what happened: https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/state-of-the-twitterver...
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on “Twitterrific Has Been Discontinued”Submitted What to Expect from Marzipan as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThanks for the link @wmf. I took a look at the front page of iconfactory.com which is the site where the book author posted this: http://blog.iconfactory.com/2016/12/making-sense-of-color-ma... It looks like they aren't demonstrating a least common denominator fix there. This is understandable, as least common denominator probably doesn't look great for most modern icons. Took this screenshot: http://imgur.com/a/mNx…
Comment linking /2016/12/making-sense-of-color-management/
on “Ask HN: Any workaround for color management browser issues?”Submitted Introducing Twitterrific for macOS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLove the Iconfactory icons. My favourite is the Arcade Daze series: https://freeware.iconfactory.com/preview/adsy Iconfactory also updated their icon manager, CandyBar, to work with Apple Silicon. https://blog.iconfactory.com/2022/04/candybar-sugar-free-edi...
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on “Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS”Submitted Twitterrific for Mac: Project Phoenix as a story · 3 points
HN discussionContext for those not following: Twitter has silently shut down their API for many third party clients without any communication. Companies with apps that have been using the API for 15+ years are left in the dark: https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/state-of-the-twitterver...
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on “Twitter kicking off a developer API campaign on January 16, 2023”Submitted iPad Pro True Tone: Looking at the Future as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Enter Tapestry as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing Twitterrific (2007) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twitterrific Braces for API Shutdown as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Push Nope-ifications as a story · 2 points
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