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Lim Chee Aun
Personal blog · cheeaun.com/blogprogrammingweb
Lim Chee Aun writes cheeaunblog, a personal blog at cheeaun.com about programming and web. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-15, 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 Lim Chee Aun's posts on URL display in browsers and on building a native-feeling HTML5 Hacker News app. The comments also point to the author's Mastodon client and life timeline projects.
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.
What Hacker News says?
Thanks! If you're interested in the issues I encountered for dev, I recently blogged some of them in my article here: http://cheeaun.com/blog/2016/03/building-hackerweb-ios/ (Also note that I've released an iOS counterpart of the web app).
Comment linking /blog/2016/03/building-hackerweb-ios/
on “I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS”Submitted How I built a Hacker News mobile web app as a story · 308 points
HN discussionhttps://cheeaun.com List of blog posts and my side projects. Metalsmith, GitHub Pages.
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted How I built a Hacker News mobile web app, Part 2 as a story · 92 points
HN discussionWhen you stop by the local coffee shop, do you take note of what its address is? That's like clicking on a bookmark. But when you need to tell someone else (who is unfamiliar with the district) where that coffee shop is, or vice-versa, that information becomes really important. Hiding the path and showing only the domain is like telling someone "it's in California". On the other hand, if the URL is displayed, then t…
Comment linking /blog/2004/09/address-label-for-address-bar
on “Burying the URL”Submitted Building side projects as a story · 18 points
HN discussionHackerWeb - http://hackerwebapp.com/ I just recently launched an iOS app https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hackerweb/id1084209377?mt=8 in conjunction of the web app. It's my first ever iOS app and is built with React Native. I've also written a post on my journey in building the app: http://cheeaun.com/blog/2016/03/building-hackerweb-ios/ Here's a video preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3xDf67mjQw
Comment linking /blog/2016/03/building-hackerweb-ios/
on “Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL”Submitted Replicating 3D Trees from Apple Maps as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe creator of this (Chee Aun) is quite prolific and creative with their work ( https://cheeaun.com/projects/ ). They created https://cheeaun.life , a timeline of their life, more than 10 years ago (which looks to be kept up to date), which was my inspiration for markwhen ( https://markwhen.com ).
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on “Phanpy: A minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client”Submitted What I learnt from printing custom swags as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe best "native feeling" HTML5 app I've seen is hnmobile: http://cheeaun.github.com/hnmobile/ ,which I use everyday and recommend to everyone who read HN on iPhone. The author also went through a great details on how he built it: http://cheeaun.com/blog/2012/03/how-i-built-hacker-news-mobi...
Comment linking /blog/2012/03/how-i-built-hacker-news-mobile-web-app
on “Anatomy of a Native Feeling HTML5 iOS App”Submitted Chengyu Wordle Is Not a Love Story as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://cheeaun.com/blog/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Building HackerWeb for iOS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I attend conferences as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designing the Super Silly Hackathon website as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Repokémon as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building HackerWeb for Android as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing HackerWeb as a story · 1 points
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