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qnoid.com is a personal blog at qnoid.com about programming and career. Since 2013, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Where Is Windmill on the iPhone?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-01, and you can follow it by feed.

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19mentions?
12HN people?
2013–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2019

Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link qnoid.com for a personal post on anxiety and depression, an account of Apple rejecting an iOS app, and a series of posts and talks on user identity and passwordless login.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

This is a personal website, at the outskirts of the web, away from social media and publishing platforms.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Where Is Windmill on the iPhone?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-29
  2. An Apple Developer for 10 Years
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-06

What Hacker News says?

  1. I can attest that how the author felt is how I experienced anxiety and depression. https://qnoid.com/2018/11/23/Anxiety-and-Depression.html#mai...

    Comment linking /2018/11/23/Anxiety-and-Depression.html

    on “Loving Someone with Depression”
  2. Submitted An Apple Developer for 10 Years as a story · 130 points

    HN discussion
  3. Location: London, UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Swift, Objective-C (iOS, macOS), Java (JAX-RS), AWS (S3, EC2, Cloudfront, RDBS) Résumé/CV: https://qnoid.com/static/Curriculum%20vitae.pdf Email: markos [at] qnoid [dot] com Hello everyone, I am Markos aka qnoid. You might have come across Windmill ( https://windmill.qnoid.com/ ) or that talk on Sound Debugging ( https://qnoid.com/2013/06/08/Soun…

    Comment linking /2024/04/11/debugging-closed-source-code.html

    on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2024)”
  4. Submitted Why can't programmers design software? as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  5. Here's the actual blog / text where the author discusses it: https://qnoid.com/2019/07/29/Windmill-on-the-iPhone.html#mai... > YOUR APP IS TOO SIMILAR TO TESTFLIGHT, WHICH CREATES A MISLEADING ASSOCIATION WITH APPLE PRODUCTS. WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO REVIEW YOUR APP CONCEPT AND EVALUATE WHETHER YOU CAN INCORPORATE DIFFERENT CONTENT AND FEATURES TO BRING IT INTO COMPLIANCE WITH THE APP STORE REVIEW GUIDELINES. Testflight:…

    Comment linking /2019/07/29/Windmill-on-the-iPhone.html

    on “An Apple Developer for 10 Years”
  6. Submitted Why aren't we password free yet? as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  7. Hmmm, one could choose other grocery stores to distribute their products but developers can only distribute their app in one store. If you spent months or years developing an app and apple reject it, you have no way to go. You can’t make it android or web without significant rework. Even if it is accepted, it might get sherlocked by Apple in WWDC. Not to mention your app could break every year at this time round whe…

    Comment linking /2019/09/06/Apple-Developer.html

    on “Apple Dominates App Store Search Results, Thwarting Competitors”
  8. Submitted The Windmill source code is now public as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Hi there, I'm Markos Charatzas, the author of the post. This is actually a series of posts written ( http://qnoid.com/2012/11/10/A-post-about-user-identity-that-... , http://qnoid.com/2012/11/10/Mockups-on-user-identity.html , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9Zu-AHhXyo ), talks given ( https://speakerdeck.com/qnoid/user-identity-nsconference-201... https://speakerdeck.com/qnoid/user-identity ) and open source code r…

    Comment linking /2012/11/10/Mockups-on-user-identity.html

    on “Why aren't we password free yet?”
  10. Submitted Debt and Borrowed Time as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Why can't programmers design software as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted The Windmill source code is now public as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted An Apple Developer for 10 Years as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Thinking of Quitting the Software Industry as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Speed up Xcode debugging by using sounds as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Where Is Windmill on the iPhone? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Where Is Windmill on the iPhone? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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