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Shadowfacts
Personal blog · shadowfacts.net · on HN as shadowfactsprogrammingweb
Shadowfacts is a personal blog at shadowfacts.net about programming and web. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Type – programming typing practice”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Type – programming typing practice2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-10-08
What Hacker News says?
https://shadowfacts.net/ I mostly write about iOS and web programming. It's mostly static using a custom generator with some dynamic parts to support leaving comments with ActivityPub, which is explained in more detail here: https://shadowfacts.net/2019/reincarnation/
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on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted Clarus returns home in macOS Ventura as a story · 452 points
HN discussionRight now, changing accounts is implemented by the old server sending a Move activity which tells all your followers where your new account is. This doesn't handle moving any content. But, there's nothing fundamental about ActivityPub that prevents this: https://shadowfacts.net/2023/activitypub-portable-identity/ . You can absolutely have posts identified by your identity (read: domain) rather than where they're hos…
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on “Bluesky's AT Protocol - Federation Architecture Overview”Submitted Type – programming typing practice as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://shadowfacts.net/ I mostly write about iOS app development, but recently I'm particularly proud of my blog post about ActivityPub and portable identities: https://shadowfacts.net/2023/activitypub-portable-identity/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted SwiftUI Preferences as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted View's Lifetime Is Not Yours as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted FocusedValues in SwiftUI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Portable Identity for ActivityPub as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Replicating Safari's Link Preview Animation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Type: A FOSS clone of typing.io as a story · 1 points
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