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Sam Soffes
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Sam Soffes's personal blog at soff.es covers programming and writing. Since 2012, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Sam Soffes's blog for posts on his $1000/hour consulting rate, the sale of his Cheddar app, and iOS JSON benchmarks. Commenters cite these posts as sources without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Software engineer exploring the world in my camper van.
Most-linked posts?
- /one-thousand-dollars-an-hour2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-01-05
What Hacker News says?
That says nothing about wether Sam ever got paid $1000 per hour or not. Judging by a post on his blog* I doubt that his was very lucrative for him. * http://soff.es/changes
Comment linking /changes
on “Code Reads”Submitted Then vs. Now: fascinating photo comparison as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe only data point I can think of is this JSON benchmark: http://soff.es/updated-iphone-json-benchmarks ...where Apple beats three community-developed libraries. But maybe it just wasn't that hard to beat them. I'm also skeptical because I don't see how Apple has any incentive to optimise code ever . Their devices (ARM & x86) are doubling in CPU power left and right while the UX basically stays the same. The second…
Comment linking /updated-iphone-json-benchmarks
on “The End of x86? An Update”Submitted Retiring at 25 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionDoes he really charge $1000/hour or is it a joke I didn't get? http://hire.samsoff.es/ edit: explanation http://soff.es/one-thousand-dollars-an-hour By that rate and the 800-hour figure, Cheddar would be one of the most expensive apps ever (utility vs cost).
Comment linking /one-thousand-dollars-an-hour
on “Cheddar is For Sale”Submitted Image optimization on iOS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI love stories like this, because it shows what can be accomplished when you focus on something and just get shit done. He didn't mess around, he just said "I want to build a website", so he started building a website. When he came across a problem, he searched for a solution until it worked. Sounds simple, but there are so many people who won't/can't do this. Instead of hemming and hawing, and posting on forums ask…
Comment linking /how-to-learn
on “How 5 years of reading HN enabled me to build the website for my business”Why are you using Sam Soffes'[1] photo for a testimonial by someone called 'Luke B'? [1] http://soff.es/about/
Comment linking /about/
on “Show HN: Tyk Cloud – Open Source API Management in The Cloud”http://soff.es/one-thousand-dollars-an-hour
Comment linking /one-thousand-dollars-an-hour
on “Cult app Cheddar up for sale, solo hacker explains why”Here is a list of some: http://speirs.org http://mattgemmell.com http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/ http://nshipster.com http://www.objectivesee.com http://www.fruitstandsoftware.com/blog/ http://ashfurrow.com/blog/ http://www.cimgf.com/ http://www.cocoawithlove.com/ All of them extracted from here: http://ashfurrow.com/blog/blog-resources And some more: http://objectivesea.tumblr.com/ http://soff.es/ And finally, this…
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on “Ask HN: What are the best iOS dev blogs?”
