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Josh Smith

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Josh Smith writes iJoshSmith, a personal blog at ijoshsmith.com about programming. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “IOS book for .net programmers”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2012–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Josh Smith's blog for a multi-part series on developing a tic-tac-toe game in Swift, end to end. One commenter points to its first article as a Swift example resource.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. IOS book for .net programmers
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-07-18

What Hacker News says?

  1. Josh Smith has several very good ones on GitHub [1], including one related to the development of a Swift based tic-tac-toe game as an end to end process, which he blogged about [2], which is the first article in the series. [1]: https://github.com/ijoshsmith [2]: http://ijoshsmith.com/2015/11/27/developing-tic-tac-toe-in-s...

    Comment linking /2015/11/27/developing-tic-tac-toe-in-swift/

    on “Ask HN: Can someone point to a good Swift repository for example?”
  2. Submitted Custom Threading Operator in Swift as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Objective-C Genetic Algorithm That Solves The 8 Queens Puzzle as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted IOS for .NET Devs as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted IOS book for .net programmers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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