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Mike Schinkel
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Mike Schinkel writes MikeSchinkel.com, a personal blog at mikeschinkel.com about programming and career. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-27, 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 Mike Schinkel's posts on topics such as the decline of Visual Basic, Apple's early portable music player and flat UI design with text versus icons. The comments discuss those topics, not the writing itself.
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What Hacker News says?
I ran a very successful company (successful for a time) that sold Visual Basic developer tools via a printed mail-order catalog named VBxtras. Two things killed Visual Basic: 1. The web. Visual Basic was first and foremost a Windows desktop app development tool, and their UI-first model of app development did not translate well to the web, or at least the attempts to translate to the web did not resonate. 2. Microso…
Comment linking /tags/occupationalprogrammers/
on “XMLUI”Submitted The Decline of Drupal, or How to Fix Drupal 8 as a story · 15 points
HN discussionCreative had an mp3 player that was shaped like a portable CD player [1]. I guess the idea was that it was a form factor that people were already comfortable with. If you're looking for a reason why Apple ended up on top of the portable mp3 market, this example always seemed to sum it up for me. Apple has its faults, but (with reference to the fake Henry Ford quote) it's never been the sort of company that sold its…
Comment linking /images/creative-technology.nomad-jukebox.jpg
on “Apple Introduces What It Calls an Easier to Use Portable Music Player (2001)”Submitted Why REST is More Like Religion than Most Technologies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionTo the degree a flat design idiom such as Metro [or whatever it's called] begins to admit text and favor it over icons, a reasoned argument can be made that they are objectively better. It is not just that the pictographic language of icons -, folders, floppy disks, file cabinets, trashcans, glue bottles, scissors, clipboards etc. - is drawn from a context largely irrelevant to large segments computer use today such…
Comment linking /blog/conventionalwisdomassumptionsandpotroast/
on “Authentic Design”Submitted On the Hunt for a New Programmling Language as a story · 1 points
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