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Chris Krycho

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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.

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18mentions?
13HN people?
2019–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2019

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?

  1. User Interfaces are API Boundaries: Applying domain-driven design to UI
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-09-12
  2. Assumed Audiences
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-10-29
  3. Rust and Swift
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-09-25
  4. /2017/chrome-is-not-the-standard.html
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-08-12
  5. Apple Developer Documentation Is Missing
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. 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”
  2. Submitted Apple Developer Documentation Is Missing as a story · 830 points

    HN discussion
  3. > 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”
  4. Submitted JavaScript Is C as a story · 244 points

    HN discussion
  5. Indeed! 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”
  6. Submitted User Interfaces are API Boundaries: Applying domain-driven design to UI as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. > 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”
  8. Submitted Rust and Swift as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Chrome 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?”
  10. Submitted Rust is Incredibly Productive for CLIs: Rust is more than “systems programming.” as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. So 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”
  12. Submitted Assumed Audiences as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. eterps · 2024-05-05Recommends
    This 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”
  14. Submitted Academic Markdown and Citations (2015) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted User Interfaces Are API Boundaries as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted User Interfaces Are API Boundaries as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Assumed Audience as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted User Interfaces Are API Boundaries as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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