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Kofi Gumbs
Personal blog · kofi.sexy/blogprogramminggamesweb
Kofi Gumbs's personal blog at kofi.sexy covers programming, games and web. Since 2018, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Creating a Slack app that uses fewer resources”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post on building a macOS app from a group of websites, Swift-only and without Xcode. Commenters use it to explain the goal: cmd-tab icons and native notifications for web apps.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/multi3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-05-22
- Creating a Slack app that uses fewer resources3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-08-03
- Modern SPAs without bundlers, CDNs, or Node.js2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-13
What Hacker News says?
It sounds like you didn't read the blog post: https://kofi.sexy/blog/multi The problem this solves is that web apps don't have (1) cmd-tab icons or (2) decent notifications. And it does that without using "cross-platform tools" or "electron". That's why it's cool.
Comment linking /blog/multi
on “Show HN: Create a custom macOS app from a group of websites”Submitted An Elm compiler for the Erlang Virtual Machine as a story · 182 points
HN discussionSee also the blog post: https://kofi.sexy/blog/multi The swift-only, programmatic approach without Xcode or the typical app framework is very cool! Assembling those parts seems like a great learning experience. (More interesting to me than the actual functionality)
Comment linking /blog/multi
on “Show HN: Create a custom macOS app from a group of websites”Submitted Creating a Slack app that uses fewer resources as a story · 125 points
HN discussionThis is pretty neat :) I read the blog post[0] about it too, and I definitely feel your multiple chat app pains. I'm curious to hear more about why you avoided Xcode and ViewControllers. In general I know many people dislike Xcode, but I've been doing iOS dev for a while now so I guess I'm used to it (it's a love have situation for me at times) [0] https://kofi.sexy/blog/multi
Comment linking /blog/multi
on “Show HN: Create a custom macOS app from a group of websites”Submitted Making a Game Boy game in 2025 as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zero-downtime deploys for Render apps with disk storage as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Working around Google Calendar sync delays as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modern SPAs without bundlers, CDNs, or Node.js as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating a Slack app that uses fewer resources as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating a Slack app that uses fewer resources as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a tool that work's with Elm's types as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Multi 3.0: Codesigning, dynamic libraries, and macOS notifications as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Multi 3.0: Codesigning, dynamic libraries, and macOS notifications as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modern SPAs without bundlers, CDNs, or Node.js as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a tool that work's with Elm's types as a story · 1 points
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