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Nick Bradbury
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Nick Bradbury's personal blog at nickbradbury.com covers programming and culture. Since 2013, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Nick Bradbury's writing on feed parsing and XML, drawing on his time as creator of the FeedDemon RSS reader. They also link his essay on the programmer's dream.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I develop Android apps. In a previous life I created HomeSite, TopStyle and FeedDemon for Windows.
What Hacker News says?
Not been writing XML parsers, but I remember Nick Bradbury the creator of the FeedDemon fame wrote about it a lot 'back in the days', * https://nickbradbury.com/2006/09/21/fixing_funky_fe_1/ * http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2004/01/feeddemon_and_w.html * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeedDemon
Comment linking /2006/09/21/fixing_funky_fe_1/
on “JSON Feed”Submitted Android's Overblown Fragmentation Problem Revisited as a story · 49 points
HN discussionReminds me of this ramble https://nickbradbury.com/2014/12/11/the-programmers-dream-a-... . I printed it out and hung it in my livingroom, keeps me sane.
Comment linking /2014/12/11/the-programmers-dream-a-ramble/
on “Nobody Knows What They're Doing (2013)”Submitted The Programmer's Dream (A Ramble) as a story · 45 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I Left Indie Development as a story · 43 points
HN discussionSubmitted Code is Temporary as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Crash Landing of Southwest 345 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Code That No One Touches as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tech as the Teen Common Ground as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Broken by Design as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Android’s fragmentation problem is replaced by support library problem as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Last Version of FeedDemon is Here, and it’s Free | Nick Bradbury as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted If You Want to Write Useful Software, You Have to Do Tech Support as a story · 1 points
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