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Chris Krycho
Personal blog · v4.chriskrycho.comprogrammingweb
Chris Krycho's personal blog at v4.chriskrycho.com covers programming and web. Since 2019, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “User Interfaces are API Boundaries: Applying domain-driven design to UI”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Chris Krycho's posts on comparing programming languages (Rust, Swift, F#), on Chrome and web standards, and on assumed audiences in technical writing. Commenters cite them as supporting points.
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.
Theology, technology, life & art
Most-linked posts?
- User Interfaces are API Boundaries: Applying domain-driven design to UI3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-09-12
- Assumed Audiences3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-10-29
- Rust and Swift3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-09-25
- /2017/chrome-is-not-the-standard.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-08-12
- Apple Developer Documentation Is Missing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-28
What Hacker News says?
For a while I was looking aggressively at using swift everywhere, but then I tried rust and read this https://v4.chriskrycho.com/rust-and-swift.html and gained a new respect for Rust and have been using it whenever I can since.
Comment linking /rust-and-swift.html
on “Swift System Is Now Open Source”Submitted Apple Developer Documentation Is Missing as a story · 830 points
HN discussion> Chrome is just perpetually innovating No. Chrome is perpetually in Fire and Motion. Chrome is not the standard, https://v4.chriskrycho.com/2017/chrome-is-not-the-standard.h...
Comment linking /2017/chrome-is-not-the-standard.html
on “New WebKit features in Safari 15.4”Submitted JavaScript Is C as a story · 244 points
HN discussionIndeed! Thus the Assumed Audience header at the top of the post! It's unreasonable to expect anyone to qualify everything they say in every blog post they right, I think. ;) See also: https://v4.chriskrycho.com/2018/assumed-audiences.html
Comment linking /2018/assumed-audiences.html
on “JavaScript Is C”Submitted User Interfaces are API Boundaries: Applying domain-driven design to UI as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> Apple is quite good for developers targeting their platforms https://www.caseyliss.com/2020/11/10/on-apples-pisspoor-docu... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24410652 https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/21/22385859/apple-app-store-... https://v4.chriskrycho.com/2019/apple-your-developer-documen... > I don't expect developers targeting [. . .] consoles, to do it from other platforms either. Consoles are poor exampl…
Comment linking /2019/apple-your-developer-documentation-is-garbage.html
on “macOS has become more reliable”Submitted Rust and Swift as a story · 2 points
HN discussionChrome does seem to support more official API's than Firefox, according to [1] "Can I Use" Browser Scores. Still, this reminds me of the article [2] "Chrome is Not the Standard" [1] https://caniuse.com/#comparison [2] https://v4.chriskrycho.com/2017/chrome-is-not-the-standard.h...
Comment linking /2017/chrome-is-not-the-standard.html
on “Ask HN: Is Google Secretly Undermining Firefox?”Submitted Rust is Incredibly Productive for CLIs: Rust is more than “systems programming.” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSo just for three thing you claimed "Swift is miles ahead of Rust in terms of language usability and ergonomics." Wow. Now let me tell you Why Rust is miles ahead than Swift. 1. Swift abstract away lot of memory management by defaulting to thread safe reference counting. In Rust you are free to use stack, heap and wide range of other option. Rust has a freedom here. ARC is basically a garbage collection whatever app…
Comment linking /rust-and-swift.html
on “SwiftNIO SSH”Submitted Assumed Audiences as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis is also useful: https://v4.chriskrycho.com/exploring-four-languages.html
Comment linking /exploring-four-languages.html
on “Rust for Fsharpers and F# for Rustaceans”Submitted Academic Markdown and Citations (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted User Interfaces Are API Boundaries as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted User Interfaces Are API Boundaries as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Assumed Audience as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted User Interfaces Are API Boundaries as a story · 1 points
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