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Worms and Viruses
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Worms and Viruses is a personal blog at wormsandviruses.com about design and hardware. Since 2011, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “iOS and macOS: Catalyst and Cohesion”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only linked post in these comments is not discussed directly. The one comment addresses a claim that mobile and desktop apps can share UI code by switching between them, in a thread about Swift Playgrounds for macOS.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- iOS and macOS: Catalyst and Cohesion3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-12-23
What Hacker News says?
> You already have the UI code for mobile and desktop. All you need to do is switch to one or the other There's no "just switch". I wish people stopped hand-waving at complex technical problems with "just"s and "all you need"s. What you're saying is: "you have two completely different UIs with completely different modes of interactions, completely different layouts, affordances, a myriad other things. 'All you have…
Comment linking /2019/12/catalyst-and-cohesion/
on “Swift Playgrounds for macOS”Submitted A Burger Without Heinz as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted iOS and macOS: Catalyst and Cohesion as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fine Have Your Windows in iPadOS, but Remember This House Was Built on Apps as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Touchability, Productivity, and Portability – Pick Two as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Catalyst and Cohesion as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on Apple/Samsung Design Dispute as a story · 1 points
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