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Igor Kulman
Personal blog · blog.kulman.skprogrammingweb
Igor Kulman's personal blog at blog.kulman.sk covers programming and web. Since 2013, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 58 times, most often “Faster way to download and install Xcode”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-30, and you can follow it by feed.
A personal blog
Most-linked posts?
- Faster way to download and install Xcode3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-11-20
- I wanted async/await but I got a concurrency model3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-05-20
- Running a Local LLM Coding Server on MacBook Pro M5 Pro 48 GB2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-06
- I used to like software development but not anymore2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-22
- I still build apps for myself2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-08
What Hacker News says?
https://blog.kulman.sk Personal blog about programming, mostly iOS and Swift development, some hackintosh experience
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on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted Apple will not let me join the Developer Program – and will not say why as a story · 98 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.kulman.sk My programming blog in English, statically generated with Hugo, run on Netlify. Source code: https://github.com/igorkulman/coding-journal I also run a personal non-programming blog in Slovak at https://www.kulman.sk
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted I used to like software development but not anymore as a story · 6 points
HN discussionLocation: Prague, Czech Republic Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Windows Phone, Windows 8, Microsoft Azure, C#, F#, ASP.NET MVC/WebAPI, NancyFX LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igorkulman Blog: http://blog.kulman.sk Email: igor@kulman.sk
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2014)”Submitted Still using Firefox – but not because of its vision as a story · 5 points
HN discussionLocation: Prague, Czech Republic (EU). Remote: Yes, strongly preferred. Willing to relocate: No. Technologies: Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Swift Concurrency, Combine, Core Data, REST, WebSockets, XCTest/XCUITest, CI/CD Résumé/CV: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igorkulman/ GitHub: https://github.com/igorkulman Blog: https://blog.kulman.sk/ Email: igor@kulman.sk Senior iOS engineer with 10+ years of experience build…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)”Submitted Why are there no great Windows 8 apps? Because of WinRT. A developers view as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.kulman.sk/faster-way-to-download-and-install-xc...
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on “Making macOS Behave Itself”Submitted Why Pi is my AI coding harness as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK - remote - on site Prague, Czech Republic Specializing in .NET technologies (C#, F#), currently building Windows Phone apps and APIs in NancfyFX / ASP.NET Web API. Experience with functional languages (Haskell, ML, Scala), learning Node.js for fun. Web: http://blog.kulman.sk Github: http://github.com/igorkulman LinkedIn: http://cz.linkedin.com/in/igorkulman Contact: igor@kulman.sk, @igorkulman
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2014)”Submitted Running a Local LLM Coding Server on MacBook Pro M5 Pro 48 GB as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> If he's sanctioned for being a Putin affiliate or whatever Unless you have specific incriminating evidence, please don't present this hypothetical nonsense as if it's a real possibility. Here's more information about the author: https://blog.kulman.sk/about/ What a shame that comments keep mentioning Russia just because the author's name is not "John Smith" or something.
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on “Apple will not let me join the Developer Program – and will not say why”Submitted Backing up my repositories to self-hosted Gitea as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.kulman.sk — personal blog about software development, indie iOS apps, self-hosting, and productivity. English. https://www.kulman.sk — personal homepage with projects and links (Slovak).
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Using Git Worktrees for Development as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.kulman.sk Basically a programming blog in English, these days about iOS and Swift development, statically generated with Hugo, hosted on Netlify. I also run https://www.kulman.sk which is my original personal site in Slovak with non-programming stuff.
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on “Ask HN: Share Your Personal Site”Submitted I wanted async/await but I got a concurrency model as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI wrote a similar post some time ago just used ollama and opencode https://blog.kulman.sk/running-local-llm-coding-server/
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on “How to Setup a Local Coding Agent on macOS”Submitted My terminal-native setup for parallel coding agents as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWorking on Yomu, an indie iOS Japanese reader intended to make intermediate reading easier. It started while I was studying for JLPT N4 — I wanted adaptive furigana that hides readings for kanji I already know, so I could focus on real text without constant lookups. That shaped the core architecture: level-based furigana, offline dictionary (JMDict), and custom tokenization logic with IPADic for accuracy. Some inter…
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on “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026)”Submitted Adding IndieWeb support to my static Hugo blog as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.kulman.sk English language blog about programming topics, iOS development lately https://www.kulman.sk Slovak langauge blog about random stuff like mechanical watches, Lego, travel.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted I do not feel like a programmer anymore as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI am not sure it can be attribute to management. Not sure if good management could improve my motivation for example. Sometimes I feel like the world around me has changed and I am not able to change with it, just thinking of the good old days https://blog.kulman.sk/i-used-to-like-software-development-b...
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on “Ask HN: Doing well solo, struggling in team-centric engineering roles”Submitted I still build apps for myself as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beating App Store review: lessons from shipping a minimal indie game as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Aira: a calm anime tracker for myself as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Minimalist home network monitoring with shell scripts and ntfy.sh as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Visual Studio Code setup for iOS development with Copilot as a story · 2 points
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