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Michael McCracken
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Michael McCracken's personal blog at michael-mccracken.net covers programming and design. Since 2007, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link posts by Michael McCracken about a prototype text-view UI for the Mac OS X Cocoa text system and a 2007 post on a 'Hack like a champ' sign at UCSD's CS building.
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What Hacker News says?
I built a prototype of something like this for the Mac OS X Cocoa text system several years ago - I called it "TextShapeView", and I was intending to make it into a Cocoa text system plugin (InputManager) so you could pop up this view next to any TextView in any program. I might have gotten further with that, but I can't remember. Here's a blog post with details, links, and a screenshot: http://michael-mccracken.net…
Comment linking /2009/09/textshapeview/
on “Sublime Text”Submitted The Editing pass- Going over your code after it passes the tests can be like a second set of eyes. as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI'm a recent CS grad from UCSD. In our new CS building, there's a sign that pretty much brightened my day the first time I saw it. Thanks to this guy for putting getting the CS department to put it up: http://michael-mccracken.net/wp/2007/04/12/hack-like-a-champ...
Comment linking /wp/2007/04/12/hack-like-a-champion-today/
on “Hack like a champion today”Submitted Skim Knockoff(s) on the Mac App Store as a story · 5 points
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