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QuickBird Studios
Company blog · quickbirdstudios.com/blogprogrammingweb
QuickBird Studios is the company blog at quickbirdstudios.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2018, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “What makes a great developer? A story of an extraordinary blacksmith”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a post on Gradle Kotlin buildSrc plugins. The one commenter cites it to support the claim that Kotlin makes Gradle build scripts more manageable than Groovy.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Based in Munich, QuickBird Studios designs, implements and maintains apps that will delight your users. If your business needs to get a successful app on the road, we’re your partner to make it happen.
Most-linked posts?
- What makes a great developer? A story of an extraordinary blacksmith2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-30
- Keep-87 and Typeclasses will change the way we write Kotlin2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-05
What Hacker News says?
It solves nightmare of groovy (gradle.build scripts). Kotlin makes gradle bearable. https://quickbirdstudios.com/blog/gradle-kotlin-buildsrc-plu...
Comment linking /blog/gradle-kotlin-buildsrc-plugin-android/
on “Green vs. Brown Programming Languages”Submitted What makes a great developer? A story of an extraordinary blacksmith as a story · 58 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to build secure Mobile Apps: the tough job everybody ignores as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dart Extension Methods as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Porting an existing code base to a new platform? This is how we did it as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Read BLE Characteristics in Swift as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating an Adaptive Search Widget in Flutter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Code Reviews and the Things That No One Talks About as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Keep-87 and Typeclasses will change the way we write Kotlin as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is Functional Reactive Programming (FRP), without the buzzword bullshit? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Navigation and Deep-Links in SwiftUI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I hated Gradle. Kotlin and the buildSrc Plugin made me love it as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted iOS App Security: The Tough Job Everybody Ignores (Happy Data Privacy Day) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Keep-87 and Typeclasses will change the way we write Kotlin as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Functional String Parsing in Swift: Implementing a Game of Thrones Search Engine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Kotlin/Native production ready? Why we are not using it (yet) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dependency Injection Strategies in Swift as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What makes a great developer? A story of an extraordinary blacksmith as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing an iOS navigation library based on the coordinator pattern as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software Design Pattern: Composite by Induction as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted MVVM in Flutter Using Dart Streams as a story · 1 points
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