Hacker Blogs
Work in progress: 181,232 of 181,233 sites checked so far, more every week · updated 2 Nov 2026Missing a blog? Tell us

Top all-time · #14580

T

The Code Sheriff

Personal blog · codesheriff.blogspot.comprogrammingcareer

The Code Sheriff is a personal blog at codesheriff.blogspot.com about programming and career. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Xcode vs. AppCode”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

Visit the blog
15mentions?
5HN people?
2011–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 10 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked by one commenter during a JetBrains sale discussion as an article comparing Xcode and AppCode. The post is about choosing between those two IDEs.

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.

Keeping the streets clean of bad development practices.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Xcode vs. AppCode
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. marcog1 · 2012-12-20Recommends
    http://codesheriff.blogspot.com/2012/02/xcode-vs-appcode.htm... This article summed it up quite well for me when I was making the decision.

    Comment linking /2012/02/xcode-vs-appcode.html

    on “JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only”
  2. yonix · 2011-12-12

    Submitted Testing: Why Bother? - The Frequent Refactoring Excuse as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  3. yonix · 2012-02-04

    Submitted Xcode vs. AppCode as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. abyx · 2011-03-29

    Submitted Excuse #1 - Writing tests takes too much time as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. yonix · 2011-08-02

    Submitted Getting starting with iOS development (The Code Sheriff) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. yonix · 2011-04-05

    Submitted Excuse #2 - Writing tests is too hard as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. yonix · 2014-12-02

    Submitted Why I think Swift is not ready yet as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. yonix · 2012-04-14

    Submitted Developing "Piano Dust Buster" as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. yonix · 2011-12-28

    Submitted We are such good programmers, we don't need tests as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. yonix · 2011-11-04

    Submitted Excuse #4 - Running the tests takes forever as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. yonix · 2011-07-27

    Submitted Excuse #3 - Isn't it QA's job to test my code? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. yonix · 2011-06-22

    Submitted A test with no assert is better than no test at all as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. abyx · 2011-03-27

    Submitted Testing: Why Bother? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. xngzng · 2014-12-01

    Submitted Why I think Swift is not ready yet as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. DanielRibeiro · 2011-08-03

    Submitted Getting started with iOS development as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

Search all of HN for codesheriff.blogspot.com