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Panic Blog
Company blog · panic.com/blogprogramminggames
Panic Blog is the company blog at panic.com, writing about programming and games. Since 2007, 361 different Hacker News readers have linked it 455 times, most often “Prompt 3”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Panic codes top-quality apps for developers, publishes games for people who like fun, and, now, we make the Playdate handheld gaming system.
Most-linked posts?
- Prompt 321 people · 22 mentions · first linked 2014-05-09
- Audion - The Story behind Panic's 2nd product20 people · 22 mentions · first linked 2007-05-18
- Transmit 518 people · 18 mentions · first linked 2014-05-03
- The True Story of Audion (2004)15 people · 17 mentions · first linked 2013-10-17
- The Panic Status Board13 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2010-03-09
- The Story of Audion (2004)12 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2017-06-26
- Coda: one-window web development for Mac11 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2007-04-24
- Coda Is Now Nova9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2014-11-20
- Transmit 4 is Released8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2010-04-27
- The true story of Audion7 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2010-04-28
What Hacker News says?
Reminds me of the 2013 blog post of Panic in which they discover the lightening to hdmi “adapter” was in fact a small computer performing transcoding to HDMI. It was much larger and bulkier than 0.mg, but another example of a hidden computer in a place where one might expect just some simple wires. https://panic.com/blog/the-lightning-digital-av-adapter-surp...
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on “O.mg Cable”Submitted A Case of Stolen Source Code as a story · 527 points
HN discussionI am old enough to remember what Panic claimed to be the first ever emoji domain in 2011 [0]. But a quick look at the relevant wikipedia entry sets the record straight [1]. [0]: https://panic.com/blog/the-worlds-first-emoji-domain/ [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji_domain
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on “I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service”Submitted The Mystery of the Slow Downloads as a story · 441 points
HN discussionBoth of the most popular FTP clients for Mac and Windows that Ive seen developers using have fantastic support for S3! http://cyberduck.io https://panic.com/transmit/
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on “Amazon Web Services in Plain English”Submitted Coda 2 as a story · 376 points
HN discussionthe website design looks like a worse version of Teenage Engineering website It's a style that Panic has used for years: https://panic.com/transmit/
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on “Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System”Submitted We’ll stop selling our Code Editor app for iOS soon as a story · 353 points
HN discussionFor many apps the issue isn't feature removal but sandboxing. https://panic.com/blog/coda-2-5-and-the-mac-app-store/ MAS requires sandboxing, distribution outside the store does not. That said, Apple turns the 'default sandboxing' screw another half turn with every release. In addition to subscription revenue, upgrades are possible by releasing a new product version (e.g. "OmniGraffle 7" in MAS) with a free tier ("r…
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on “Apple and Google must allow other in-app payment systems, Korean law declares”Submitted Panic’s Next Editor as a story · 332 points
HN discussionThe company itself would likely have become part of Apple if not for one bit of unlucky timing. Apple wanted to turn Panic's Mac OS 9 music player, Audion, into iTunes. https://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/
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on “Nova by Panic”Submitted A Prototype Original iPod as a story · 320 points
HN discussionNot having choices is a bad situation. I would be surprised if you thought otherwise. Imagine not being able to ditch the App Store the way publishers have done so in the Mac App Store: https://bohemiancoding.tumblr.com/post/134322691555/leaving-... https://panic.com/blog/coda-2-5-and-the-mac-app-store/ https://sixcolors.com/post/2014/10/bbedit-at-max-q/ Imagine an App Store update breaking all of your apps: https:/…
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on “Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for app store changes”Submitted Introducing Prompt. Nice SSH for iOS. as a story · 307 points
HN discussion> You shouldn't build software based on what you're a fan of. Why not? For a solo/passion/hobby product like this, I'd argue you 100% absolutely should build it based on what you're a fan of. My experience is people like Dave who approach things with opinionated laser focus and solve a personal/niche need tend to build things with much higher quality and better experience because they essentially build it for themse…
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on “Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life”Submitted Transmit 5 as a story · 306 points
HN discussionI would say: start by doing pure HTML, then progressively work with PHP to include header.php/footer.php on every page. Then create helper functions for a few things you don't wanna repeat. You'll be surprised by how good it feels to know your website from A to Z. This is what I do for my own site: https://www.juliendesrosiers.com/ . Almost every URL ends with an old-school .php for that very reason lol. But I like…
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on “The Return of the 90s Web”Submitted ITunes 11 and Colors as a story · 266 points
HN discussionI'm a big fan of desktop sandboxing, so thanks for the hard work. I dreaded running the unsandboxed Office:mac 2011 with its constant stream of "critical" security updates. That was definitely my worst experience using native apps. On the other hand, I am not sure that code signing has been an all-around success. It seems to make life harder for the long tail of one-off apps and open source ports. And bad actors are…
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on “Sandboxed Mac apps can record screen any time without you knowing”Submitted The Panic Status Board as a story · 247 points
HN discussionIf you liked this one, you might also like .. https://panic.com/extras/audionstory/
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on “The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)”Submitted At Apple’s request, we removed the ability to “Send” files to other services as a story · 245 points
HN discussionPanic's Prompt ( http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/04/introducing-prompt-ssh-for... ) probably doesn't make them enough to support their company, but they've been around for a long time and I don't expect they'll go anywhere. I'm not sure whether it supports 256 colors.
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on “I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode”Submitted The Panic Sign as a story · 225 points
HN discussionNo, you misremembered it. Apple set up a meeting with Panic (makers of Audion) but they had to cancel because they were trying to get bought out by Aol. Apple ended up buying competitor SoundJam to use as the basis of iTunes and then still offered to hire the Audion devs but they declined. https://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/ If you're looking for 10-15 year old story where Apple famously ate someone's lunch th…
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on “f.lux for iOS is no longer available”Submitted The 2014 Panic Report as a story · 210 points
HN discussionMost mac apps have no investment, and I think they'd count. For example, http://www.panic.com/ , http://www.omnigroup.com/ .
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on “Entreporn, The Fallacy That Wastes Your Life”Submitted (Presumably) Apple engineer comment on Lightning AV adapter design as a story · 209 points
HN discussionThank you, I add the missing link. Unfortunately, I cannot share the tool because it contains multiple zero-days for apps that make use of Paddle [1] and Devmate [2] to grant and validate software licenses. It also contains zero-days for apps developed in partnership with Panic [3] and MacPaw [4]. I’ve been in contact with some of the developers of these apps to patch their software, and until they all release secur…
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on “ Apple tells app developers to disclose or remove screen recording code”Submitted The Lightning Digital AV Adapter Surprise as a story · 200 points
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