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Kyle Howells
Personal blog · ikyle.me/blogprogrammingai
Kyle Howells's personal blog at ikyle.me covers programming and ai. Since 2025, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Porting a HTML5 Parser to Swift and finding how hard it is to make Swift fast”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Readers link Kyle Howells' posts on AI coding: a guide to setting up a local coding agent on macOS, and a post on porting an HTML5 parser with AI and robust test suites. Comments only cite them as sources.
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?
- Porting a HTML5 Parser to Swift and finding how hard it is to make Swift fast2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-18
- How to Setup a Local Coding Agent on macOS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-12
What Hacker News says?
It's not like testing code is a new thing. Junit is almost 30 years old today. For functionality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_testing With robust enough test suites you can vibe code a HTML5 parser - https://ikyle.me/blog/2025/swift-justhtml-porting-html5-pars... - https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/15/porting-justhtml/ And code correctness: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree-sitter_(parser_generator) - htt…
Comment linking /blog/2025/swift-justhtml-porting-html5-parser-to-swift
on “Don't fall into the anti-AI hype”Submitted Porting a HTML5 Parser to Swift and finding how hard it is to make Swift fast as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis is the only setup that I think is reasonable to use locally right now. I had an agent set it up for me from this guys recipe: https://ikyle.me/blog/2026/how-to-setup-a-local-coding-agent... One thing I did change was the context length to 256k rather than 64k.
Comment linking /blog/2026/how-to-setup-a-local-coding-agent-on-macos
on “Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?”Submitted How to Setup a Local Coding Agent on macOS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat's the direct link: https://ikyle.me/blog/2026/how-to-setup-a-local-coding-agent...
Comment linking /blog/2026/how-to-setup-a-local-coding-agent-on-macos/Gemma_4_-_Short.mp4
on “How to Setup a Local Coding Agent on macOS”