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Luna’s Blog
Personal blog · blog.xoria.orgprogrammingsystems
Luna’s Blog is a personal blog at blog.xoria.org about programming and systems. Since 2024, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “macOS Tips”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Luna's Blog for macOS tips, a Cocoa programming series, and a post on terminal colour contrast. The comments cite or point to these posts without judging the writing.
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?
- macOS Tips6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2024-11-14
- Thoughts on Integers4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-03-31
- How to Choose Colors for Your CLI Applications2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-29
- n times faster than C, Arm edition2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-18
What Hacker News says?
That is because the green button is a «zoom» button, which maximizes the window to display its contained document: https://blog.xoria.org/macos-tips/#window-management I am not sure if I agree with the choice either, but that’s the explanation.
Comment linking /macos-tips/
on “macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)”Submitted Execution units are often pipelined as a story · 165 points
HN discussionWhat a beautiful thing: no SwiftUI, but back to Cocoa. It truly is an amazing (and wonderfully designed) library. There are more blog posts in the series: https://blog.xoria.org/
Comment linking /
on “Cocoa Basics Part Zero: Introduction”Submitted macOS Tips for Programmers: Threading as a story · 40 points
HN discussionI wonder if you could automate the findings from this blog post: https://blog.xoria.org/terminal-colors/ The user could input the colours their app uses and be shown themes that it won't look good on
Comment linking /terminal-colors/
on “Show HN: Paletty – 800 curated terminal themes and a contrast-aware generator”Submitted macOS Tips as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted macOS Tips as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted n times faster than C, Arm edition as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cocoa Basics Part Zero: Introduction as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Choose Colors for Your CLI Applications as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on Integers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on Integers (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted macOS Tips (2024) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Methods in Languages for Systems Programming (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted First-Class Types, Syntactically (2024) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted N times faster than C, Arm edition (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted macOS Tips as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on Integers (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on Integers (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Randomness on Apple Platforms (2024) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Boolean Types (2024) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Side-Effectful Expressions in C (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Overheads (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Love Email (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted macOS Tips as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted macOS Tips · Luna's Blog as a story · 1 points
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