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The Guinea Pig in the Cocoa Mine

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The Guinea Pig in the Cocoa Mine is a personal blog at cocoamine.net about programming and systems. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Replacing Photoshop with NSString”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.

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TL;DR? If you use SQlite FTS4 for indexing large immutable documents, you might want to consider contentless tables. With minor adjustments, the …

Most-linked posts?

  1. Replacing Photoshop with NSString
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Replacing Photoshop with NSString as a story · 680 points

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  2. Submitted Contentless SQLite FTS4 Tables for Large Immutable Documents as a story · 24 points

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  3. Submitted Using ASCII art to create icons for your app in code as a story · 3 points

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