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Milen's Writings
Personal blog · milen.me/writings · on HN as milenprogrammingsystems
Milen's Writings is a personal blog at milen.me about programming and systems. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Premature Optimization: Universally Misunderstood”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One HN comment links to the post 'Exploring Windows XP on macOS ARM64' and remarks on a Visual C++ screenshot from it. The comment does not evaluate the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Premature Optimization: Universally Misunderstood3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-08-28
- AppKit vs. SwiftUI: Stable vs. Shiny2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-08-10
- Auto Linking on iOS and macOS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-04
- Apple Linker Magic and Swift Runtime2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-10
- Exploring Windows XP on macOS ARM642 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-23
- Apple’s Linker and Deterministic Builds2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-04
- macOS network metrics using sysctl()2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-06
What Hacker News says?
Yup, that's me! EventBox [1] was rebranded as Socialite after it got acquired [2] by Realmac Software. [1] https://milen.me/software/eventbox-walkthrough/ [2] https://www.macworld.com/article/200462/realmac_eventbox.htm...
Comment linking /software/eventbox-walkthrough/
on “Monodraw”Submitted The Mac Platform Decline as a story · 183 points
HN discussionYeah, it was. After I finished working on the iOS app I was previously involved with, I needed to either find a job or make another app. I was browsing StackOverflow and saw some cool looking ASCII diagrams, thinking to myself "How can I make these easily on macOS?". So that's how the idea was born. I then spent about 1.5yrs from the initial commit until v1 release. Unfortunately, the financials didn't work out, so…
Comment linking /software/clear-iphone-walkthrough/
on “Monodraw”Submitted Swift Protocols and Generics as a story · 57 points
HN discussionWe created the most popular (at the time) “all in one” app for macOS back in 2008 called EventBox [1]. It aggregated RSS, Twitter, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Reddit. So it’s a very old idea that’s just coming back - like a lot of things, it goes in cycles. We ended up selling the software to another company. My personal advice - never build your business on top of other companies data/APIs, they can cut you off at any…
Comment linking /software/eventbox-walkthrough/
on “Tapestry by Iconfactory”Submitted Exploring Windows XP on macOS ARM64 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe Visual C++ screenshot [0] took me back. The clean and clear UI, much simpler times. [0] https://milen.me/images/writings/windows-xp-on-macos-arm64/v...
Comment linking /images/writings/windows-xp-on-macos-arm64/visual_cpp_20.jpg
on “Exploring Windows XP on macOS ARM64”Submitted Exploring Windows XP on macOS ARM64 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Premature Optimization: Universally Misunderstood as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AppKit vs. SwiftUI: Stable vs. Shiny as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted macOS network metrics using sysctl() as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple Linker Magic and Swift Runtime as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Distributed Caching and Compilation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple’s Linker and Deterministic Builds as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Premature Optimization: Universally Misunderstood as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Premature Optimization: Universally Misunderstood as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AppKit vs. SwiftUI: Stable vs. Shiny as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AppKit vs. SwiftUI: Stable vs. Shiny as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Performance: Faster or Fast? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted macOS Network Metrics Using Sysctl() as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Auto Linking on iOS and macOS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Auto Linking on iOS and macOS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple’s Linker and Deterministic Builds as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple Linker Magic and Swift Runtime as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Live Photo API on iOS as a story · 1 points
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