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Neven Mrgan
Personal blog · mrgan.comdesigngamesculture
Neven Mrgan's personal blog at mrgan.com covers design, games and culture. Since 2009, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “How it feels to get an AI email from a friend”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Neven Mrgan's site for its iPhone-friendly web apps and games, such as PieGuy and Glyphboard, and for an essay on AI email from a friend. The comments give links and mention the projects without judging the writing.
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.
Designer, game maker, and writer in Portland, OR. One of the good ones.
Most-linked posts?
- How it feels to get an AI email from a friend4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-05-29
- PieGuy - fully cached iPhone webapp game2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-11-25
What Hacker News says?
https://mrgan.com/ai-email-from-a-friend/
Comment linking /ai-email-from-a-friend/
on “Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac”Submitted How it feels to get an AI email from a friend as a story · 95 points
HN discussionI wonder how much of the code was inspired by Neven Mrgan's PieGuy iphone webapp game, also written in html/js. http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/257187093/pie-guy http://mrgan.com/pieguy/ <-- go here on your iphone
Comment linking /pieguy/
on “Play PacMan at google.com Now.”Submitted PieGuy - fully cached iPhone webapp game as a story · 19 points
HN discussionhttps://mrgan.com/ai-email-from-a-friend/
Comment linking /ai-email-from-a-friend/
on “Proton Mail Adds an Open-Source AI Writing Assistant to Take on Gmail”Submitted How It feels to get an AI email from a friend as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> "Downloading an app" is simply going to the web page when you are online initially, and then adding a (possibly automatically) shortcut to the "desktop." FWIW, that's also what you do to pull a web app locally with an iPhone (+ then "Add to Home Screen"). Issue is that there is no visible indication that a webapp can be used locally (as far as I've seen anyway). A nice demo has been glyphboard ( http://mrgan.com/g…
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on “Let’s Take This Offline - Dive Into HTML 5”Submitted How it feels to get an AI email from a friend as a story · 2 points
HN discussionInstalling it merely puts a shortcut to the website containing the game on your iPhone home screen. If you change your user agent to iPhone and go to http://mrgan.com/pieguy/ on your browser I assume you could play it on your desktop.
Comment linking /pieguy/
on “PieGuy - fully cached iPhone webapp game”If you're using a iPhone, you can also use Glyphboard, which has lower page loading overhead and is right sized for the platform... http://www.mrgan.com/gb/
Comment linking /gb/
on “Amazing UTF-8 Symbols for Twitter”
