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Weisser Zwerg
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Weisser Zwerg is a personal blog at weisser-zwerg.dev about programming and science. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “iOS App Without a Mac”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's posts on running iOS apps without a Mac and on repurposing Dell Wyse and Fujitsu Futro thin clients. They cite them as evidence for their own points about Apple's sideloading and codesigning.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Blog about software development, computer science and technology in general.
Most-linked posts?
- iOS App Without a Mac2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-11-04
What Hacker News says?
> A temporary cert only able to be created on another Apple system You don’t need an Apple system to codesign. Two results on first page of search results: https://github.com/zhlynn/zsign https://weisser-zwerg.dev/posts/ios-app-without-mac/ > make the process as unpleasant as possible but just so enough that Apple can claim they don't block sideloading Apple doesn’t claim they don’t block side-loading. Actually I be…
Comment linking /posts/ios-app-without-mac/
on “About the security content of iOS 14.7.1 and iPadOS 14.7.1”Submitted iOS App Without a Mac as a story · 4 points
HN discussionA friend of mine just posted this today, and I totally agree: https://weisser-zwerg.dev/posts/software-engineering-vcs/
Comment linking /posts/software-engineering-vcs/
on “Git for Computer Scientists (2010)”Submitted Teleporting a Public IPv6 Address from Your VPS to Your Home Server as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis person has had success with the idea: https://weisser-zwerg.dev/posts/dell-wyse-fujitsu-futro/
Comment linking /posts/dell-wyse-fujitsu-futro/
on “At last, the Raspberry Pi shortage is finally coming to an end”Submitted Trading Evolved: CSI-Data as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Photovoltaics for Urban Spaces: Shadow Effects on Balcony Power Stations as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ChatGPT – Open AI API for Proofreading Markdown Blog Posts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Covid-19 Data Analysis as a story · 1 points
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