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Sebastiaan de With
Personal blog · dewith.comdesignprogramming
Sebastiaan de With's personal blog at dewith.com covers design and programming. Since 2012, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “It’s Not Just Phones - Laptops before/after the MacBook Air”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Sebastiaan de With's posts on app design process, such as one on the design process behind an Android alarm clock app, and a roundup of Yosemite icons for Sublime. Comments cite them as examples.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- It’s Not Just Phones - Laptops before/after the MacBook Air3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-08-31
- Awakenings: An Android Design Process2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-07-20
What Hacker News says?
This looks great. Here's the best Sublime replacement icon I've found: http://dewith.com/2014/muir-yosemite-icons-volume-ii/
Comment linking /2014/muir-yosemite-icons-volume-ii/
on “Afterglow: Dark Theme for Sublime”Submitted This is the mail system as a story · 119 points
HN discussionI am sick and tired of the hundreds of multiple trees of comments wasted on misunderstanding plain English terms that another meaning was tacked on and the sides that people take for words used in a casual context. Examples: Copyright infringement vs. Stealing open source vs. Open Source free software vs. Free sofware Viruses vs. trojans patent troll Why can't we have a wiki or manifesto or something where we all ag…
Comment linking /2012/its-not-just-phones/
on “Apple goes after Galaxy S3, Note in new court filing”Submitted Awakenings: An Android Design Process as a story · 12 points
HN discussion> Today Apple went down in history as the biggest > patent-troll of all time, stiffling innovation and > competition like nobody has ever done before. Only Apple is no patent troll, because they produce and sell high quality products which other companies try to copy. Please, tell me how much innovation will be stiffled when Samsung can no longer produce these highly original connectors http://www.davidglover.org/fa…
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on “Apple goes after Galaxy S3, Note in new court filing”Submitted Introducing Facebook Photos as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIt's not just the stock apps - there is a culture amongst Apple 3rd party developers to discuss, refine and push design and interaction forwards. The only time I've seen it amongst Android devs is for that alarm clock app [1], whereas it's a regular talking point about iOS apps (the latest being Paper discussing their colour-picker [2]). [1] http://dewith.com/2012/an-android-design-process/ [2] http://www.theverge.c…
Comment linking /2012/an-android-design-process/
on “Apple should buy Twitter, and they should do it now”Submitted It’s Not Just Phones - Laptops before/after the MacBook Air as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Helm, a browser concept as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Under New Management as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Email you can trust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simplicity and Obviousness as a story · 1 points
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