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Jesse Squires
Personal blog · jessesquires.com/blogprogrammingdesign
Jesse Squires's personal blog at jessesquires.com covers programming and design. Since 2014, 39 different Hacker News readers have linked it 60 times, most often “My website disappeared from Bing and DuckDuckGo”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jesse Squires' posts for Swift performance benchmarks, websites being dropped from Bing and DuckDuckGo results, and macOS and iOS troubleshooting tips such as sysdiagnose, menu bar spacing and iCloud backup.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Turing complete with a stack of 0xdeadbeef
Most-linked posts?
- My website disappeared from Bing and DuckDuckGo4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-03-27
- Is SwiftUI Ready?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-07-02
- GitHub suspending Russian accounts, deleted project history and pull requests3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-04-20
- /blog/2022/07/25/my-website-disappeared-from-bing-and-duckduckgo-part-2/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-08-05
- Swift open source – let the revolution begin2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-12-07
- Swift Sort vs. C Sort – Apples to Apples, Part III2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-21
- How to fix Mac menu bar icons hidden by the MacBook notch2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-17
- On third-party Apple Watch apps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-13
- Apple's Cooperation with Authoritarian Governments2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-31
- Apples to Apples, Part II2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-06
What Hacker News says?
You can probably get a sysdiagnose from your iOS device with: https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2018/02/08/how-to-sysdiagn...
Comment linking /blog/2018/02/08/how-to-sysdiagnose-ios/
on “When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com”Submitted Why is Apple acting like an asshole? as a story · 569 points
HN discussionThen you're just trusting Github, and they don't have a perfect track record on neutrality: https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2022/04/19/github-suspendi...
Comment linking /blog/2022/04/19/github-suspending-russian-accounts/
on “AWS and Blockchain”Submitted Apple's Cooperation with Authoritarian Governments as a story · 468 points
HN discussionAnd yet Apple is cooperating with authoritarian governments[1]. For example, in Myanmar[2]: > Most recently, there was a dispute with ProtonVPN (the company that also makes ProtonMail) over an update for its app in the App Store. Proton Technologies claimed that Apple was intentionally blocking the update amid the ongoing crackdown in Myanmar. And in China[2]: > "China appears to have received help on Saturday from…
Comment linking /blog/2021/03/30/apple-cooperation-with-authoritarian-governments/
on “The Perils of M1 Ownership”Submitted My worst tech interview experience as a story · 162 points
HN discussionHere is the apparent origin post of this undocumented preference: Hidden preference to alter the menubar spacing https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/16lpfg5/hidden_prefe... The author describes tracing Bartender's activity to hunt down the method. And this blog post mentions higher values than 6 (recommending 12 for NSStatusItemSpacing and 8 for NSStatusItemSelectionPadding): How to fix Mac menu bar icons hidden…
Comment linking /blog/2023/12/16/macbook-notch-and-menu-bar-fixes/
on “Built-in workaround for applications hiding under the MacBook Pro notch”Submitted Swift open source – let the revolution begin as a story · 161 points
HN discussionYour cases 2 and 3 are pattern matches . It's perfectly fine to use regular equality with optionals (case 2) or enums (case 3), but in that case you're not matching a pattern you're comparing two specific values , and you need the types to be equatable[0] (enums aren't by default, though optionals are if they contain an equatable value). * you can write "foobar == .someEnum" if you've defined "==" for your enum type…
Comment linking /swift-enumerations-and-equatable/
on “Swift 3.0 Released”Submitted Apples to Apples, Part II as a story · 90 points
HN discussionThe elephant in the room: DDG's search results are primarily sourced from Bing. Unfortunately, as long as DDG depends on third-party crawlers, the suggestions to improve search results (& "the algorithm") seem far-fetched & naive. (DDG does have its own crawler, DuckDuckBot, but apparently it's only used for very specific functionality.) https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so... > For DuckDuckG…
Comment linking /blog/2022/03/25/my-website-disappeared-from-bing-and-duckduckgo/
on “My take on how DuckDuckGo can outperform Google”Submitted Apple's DocC is excellent, but unusable for open source projects as a story · 89 points
HN discussionThe last benchmarks[1] I saw for Swift showed it's generally pretty slow without optimisations on, but various differences in the language from Objective C mean the compiler can optimise it much more, so generally it's faster than Objective C (and actually comparable to pure C at times[2]). [1] http://www.jessesquires.com/apples-to-apples-part-two [2] http://www.jessesquires.com/apples-to-apples-part-three/
Comment linking /apples-to-apples-part-three/
on “Swift Resistance”Submitted GitHub suspending Russian accounts, deleted project history and pull requests as a story · 74 points
HN discussionThis keeps happening. Just a few of many examples: https://daverupert.com/2023/01/shadow-banned-by-duckduckgo-a... https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2022/03/25/my-website-disa... https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/bing.html
Comment linking /blog/2022/03/25/my-website-disappeared-from-bing-and-duckduckgo/
on “Techdirt has been deleted from Bing and DuckDuckGo”Submitted GitHub can't be trusted: suspending Russian accounts deleted history and PRs as a story · 19 points
HN discussionTo help clarify the current situation: One of those websites reported having problems for a month or so, then having it sorted out all by itself. The author's article on that: https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2022/07/25/my-website-disa... My sites are technically present, but shown only when I search for the exact domain (bikegremlin.com) or the site name (BikeGremlin). But none of my articles are shown in SERP whe…
Comment linking /blog/2022/07/25/my-website-disappeared-from-bing-and-duckduckgo-part-2/
on “More Privacy and Transparency for DuckDuckGo Web Tracking Protections”Submitted My Apple Watch thinks I'm dead as a story · 8 points
HN discussionWhat can you do to prevent sites from getting removed from DuckDuckGo as a side effect of Bing mistakenly deindexing the sites? https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2022/07/25/my-website-disa... https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/bing.html https://io.bikegremlin.com/28530/microsoft-bing-serp-gone-ov... https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-bing/help-w...
Comment linking /blog/2022/07/25/my-website-disappeared-from-bing-and-duckduckgo-part-2/
on “More Privacy and Transparency for DuckDuckGo Web Tracking Protections”Submitted My website disappeared from Bing and DuckDuckGo as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHere's a different comparison for what it's worth http://www.jessesquires.com/apples-to-apples-part-two/
Comment linking /apples-to-apples-part-two/
on “Swift Performance: Too Slow for Production”Submitted AI Code review is always wrong as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSee "Bing and DuckDuckGo removed my business web site" https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/bing.html and "My website disappeared from Bing and DuckDuckGo, Part 2" https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2022/07/25/my-website-disa...
Comment linking /blog/2022/07/25/my-website-disappeared-from-bing-and-duckduckgo-part-2/
on “I'm Shadow Banned by DuckDuckGo (and Bing)”Submitted iCloud failures, developer relations, and the 30 percent as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSetting up a Smart Folder in MacOS may work but it’s been a long time since I’ve used them. I use rsync to backup photos to my NAS. It looks like you can use rsync on an iCloud directory.[1] I just ordered a new MacBook Pro and plan to use them method for my NAS and to iCloud. [1] https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2019/09/27/icloud-backup-u...
Comment linking /blog/2019/09/27/icloud-backup-using-rsync/
on “Apple stole $100s from me, Customer Service says there's nothing they can do”Submitted Yo, where's my Juicero? A survey of talent in Silicon Valley as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't let them loot, they said, as their streets became rivers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Officially deprecating JSQMessagesViewController as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is SwiftUI Ready? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Resources for learning about compilers and LLVM as a story · 3 points
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