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NatashaTheRobot
Personal blog · natashatherobot.com · on HN as natasham25programmingai
NatashaTheRobot is a personal blog at natashatherobot.com about programming and ai. Since 2012, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link NatashaTheRobot for Swift posts, such as one arguing that guard is better than if case for unwrapping enum values. Commenters also name it among their favourite iOS and Swift blogs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Exploring AI-powered app development in Swift—practical insights, hands-on projects, and the latest in AI integration for iOS developers.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-11-01
What Hacker News says?
For people coming from C/C++/ObjC, certain things in Swift can take some time to get used to, e.g. if case .Success(let person) = personResult { ... } My first thought when I saw this was, "only a mother could love this syntax", but later you come to appreciate and enjoy it. Link: https://www.natashatherobot.com/swift-guard-better-than-if/
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on “Why many developers still prefer Objective-C to Swift”Submitted Thoughts on Functional Programming in Swift as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFor people coming from C/C++/ObjC, some things in Swift can take some time to get used to, e.g. if case .Success(let person) = personResult { ... } My first thought when I saw this was, "only mother could love this syntax", but later you come to appreciate and enjoy the syntax. Link: https://www.natashatherobot.com/swift-guard-better-than-if/
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on “Swift Programming Language Evolution”Submitted Swift Alternatives to C-style for-loops as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI wrote (and maintain) my own rss reader for iOS - https://github.com/younata/RSSClient/ , here's a trimmed down version what I follow: News: - Electrek - https://electrek.co (Basically Tesla news, but ostensibly EV news) - Hackaday - MacRumors Swift/iOS Dev: - Natasha The Robot - http://natashatherobot.com - Swift Weekly Brief - https://swiftweekly.github.io - This Week in Swift - http://swiftnews.curated.co - NSHi…
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on “Ask HN: What's on your RSS reader?”Submitted The making of try Swift Conference Tokyo 2016 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK - San Francisco, remote I'm a full-stack Ruby on Rails developer, with experience in Backbone.js and Test Driven Development. I'm looking for a 10-15 hour / week project. Available right away, charging cheaper rates as I'm starting out. Github: https://github.com/NatashaTheRobot Blog: http://natashatherobot.com/
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2012)”Submitted Swift Programming Books as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe trailing closure syntax [1] seems to be a point of pride with Swift. However, I feel that it’s grown to be a painful aspect of the language. Another example is when a function takes two closure arguments, e.g.: func animate(withDuration duration: TimeInterval, animations: @escaping () -> Void, completion: ((Bool) -> Void)? = nil) It is perfectly valid to call this function using a trailing closure for the latter…
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on “Custom string delimiters in Swift 5”Submitted Protocol-Oriented MVVM in Swift 2.0 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHi, a woman programmer here. I asked a question on StackOverflow once while first learning Python, and got a pretty mean answer. I called the guy out on my blog, of course: http://natashatherobot.com/hey-dude-you-dont-have-to-be-mean... . Before asking the question, I never posted on StackOverflow before, because I expected a mean answer, and that's exactly what happened. StackOverflow is not a very safe place for a…
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on “Girls Who Code expands across the US ”Submitted Swift: Protocol Composition as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHere are my favourites: https://www.natashatherobot.com https://www.swiftbysundell.com http://whatsnewinswift.com https://rambo.codes And sporadically, I'll write a few myself: http://blog.chrishannah.me/category/swift-tips/
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on “Ask HN: Great iOS / Swift Blogs?”Submitted Getting into Flow with AI Coding as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSeeing there are no blogs listed for iOS dev, here are my favorites: https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/ http://nshipster.com/ http://natashatherobot.com/ http://oleb.net/blog/ Also I have a blog: http://koreyhinton.com/blog
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on “Ask HN: What programming blogs do you recommend to read regularly and why?”Submitted Implementation Matters as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing Better Code with Custom Subscripts in Swift as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Xcode: One Weird Debugging Trick That Will Save Your Life as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swift 2.0: Understanding flatMap as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swift 2 Pattern Matching: Unwrapping Multiple Optionals as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Create a “Hello World” WatchKit App as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Made $6.87 In The App Store as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You could be kicked out of Dev Bootcamp as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Harnessing AI for Intelligent PDF Processing in Swift as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swift: Attempting to Understand Type Erasure as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted New Swift Job Board as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Swift Look at Protocols with Associated Types as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Xcode: One Weird Debugging Trick That Will Save Your Life as a story · 1 points
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