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Casey Liss
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Casey Liss writes Liss is More, a personal blog at caseyliss.com about hardware and culture. Since 2014, 34 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times, most often “The state of external retina displays”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (18) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Casey Liss's posts as sources on Apple's poor developer documentation, Retina monitor scaling, and John Siracusa's toaster reviews. Two commenters praise a post on Jason Seifer.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 18 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- The state of external retina displays6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-12-07
- On Apple's Piss-Poor Documentation5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-11-10
- /2015/9/10/siracusa-on-toasters3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-12-02
- Callsheet: Native iOS IMDb Interface2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-08
- Retina Monitors2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-08-19
- Vignette: add photos to your contacts by searching public social media profiles2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-25
- Apple's feedback mechanism is broken2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-20
- Announcing Peek-a-View2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-06
What Hacker News says?
Until a few months ago, I had never really used BitTorrent to do anything - save for about 20 minutes back in HS almost 20 years ago (!) (I think I was running uTorrent on Windows, it was weird and I really didn't know how to use it.) However, in order to "acquire" [this][1], torrenting was realistically the only sensible option I had. A direct download from the Internet Archive would have taken roughly 7 hours @ 10…
Comment linking /2021/2/14/a-concert-for-charlottesville
on “Apple's iCloud+ “VPN””Submitted On Apple's Piss-Poor Documentation as a story · 1180 points
HN discussion> I wouldn't take anybody's word for it, unless I knew them personally. Maybe that's the thing: We need reviewers that we "almost know", who aren't faceless, but also aren't as deeply corrupt as most YouTubers? A bit like John Siracusa reviewing toasters in podcasts [1]. At least with simple gadgets, I would rather trust him than Amazon reviews, even though I've only heard him talking for a few hours. [1] https://ww…
Comment linking /2015/9/10/siracusa-on-toasters
on “The war to sell you a mattress”Submitted The state of external retina displays as a story · 379 points
HN discussion> ...without the documentation that would help you. Well, it's not really worse than their usual documentation on products they officially support: https://www.caseyliss.com/2020/11/10/on-apples-pisspoor-docu...
Comment linking /2020/11/10/on-apples-pisspoor-documentation
on “Linux Running on Apple M1”Submitted MaskerAid iOS App as a story · 273 points
HN discussionI currently do this with HDMIs (I somehow make do with a measley 4K monitors). I assumed such a thing existed for thunderbolt but hadn't looked into it; it looks like you're right that this market is underdeveloped at present. Hopefully somebody does it! Or, the wisdom of HN will yield us some options. Otherwise, if you're willing to settle for affordable retina-quality monitors, this is the one I use: https://camel…
Comment linking /2021/12/7/monitor-liss
on “Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display”Submitted Apple's feedback mechanism is broken as a story · 174 points
HN discussionCasey does as well: https://www.caseyliss.com/2020/2/6/peek-a-view
Comment linking /2020/2/6/peek-a-view
on “Developing a new app is unreasonable condition that Apple imposes on dating apps”Submitted Turning a Decommissioned iPhone into a UniFi Protect Camera as a story · 121 points
HN discussionIt's not just you, nobody is more upset about Apple's documentation than the developers who are immersed in the environment.[1][2][3][4] [1]: https://www.caseyliss.com/2020/11/10/on-apples-pisspoor-docu... [2]: https://www.hackingwithswift.com/articles/231/reimagining-ap... [3]: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/05/20/the-state-of-apples-devel... [4]: https://kean.blog/post/apple-documentation
Comment linking /2020/11/10/on-apples-pisspoor-documentation
on “Apple Design Resources”Submitted Vignette: add photos to your contacts by searching public social media profiles as a story · 118 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 /2020/11/10/on-apples-pisspoor-documentation
on “macOS has become more reliable”Submitted T-Mobile USA storing passwords in clear? as a story · 81 points
HN discussionThey have a ton of different products and APIs and they just don't document them all. Even worse, much of the documentation they do have is hidden inside hard-to-search WWDC session videos or, ugh, Slack conversations with Apple engineers. External developers have complained for years. [1] [1]: https://www.caseyliss.com/2020/11/10/on-apples-pisspoor-docu...
Comment linking /2020/11/10/on-apples-pisspoor-documentation
on “ExtensionKit”Submitted CarPlay Is Additive as a story · 38 points
HN discussionCasey Liss (host of Accidental Tech Podcast, among others) has a small writeup about that work at https://www.caseyliss.com/2014/11/22/how-i-make-podcasts
Comment linking /2014/11/22/how-i-make-podcasts
on “Is the podcast bubble bursting?”Submitted Retina Monitors as a story · 14 points
HN discussionI suppose if you put it quite far away, a 27" 4k @2x scaling would work well. It'd feel like a 24" 1080p monitor with retina sharpness. For all the folks confused why I'm saying you don't want a 27" 4k monitor for text, it's because the PPI isn't nicely sized for 1x or 2x, which means you have to set it to scaling that rounds and blurs subpixels. More info: https://www.caseyliss.com/2017/5/17/retina-monitors By the…
Comment linking /2017/5/17/retina-monitors
on “How to pick a good monitor for software development”Submitted The State of External Retina Displays, [Almost] 2022 Edition as a story · 13 points
HN discussionMigration Assistant does this quite well. This is the built-in first-run cloning tool when you start a new Mac. I'm on maybe the fifth or sixth generation of cloned user environment in however many years. Apps, preferences, data, all copied from older machines to newer ones. I recently ran into a scenario where that didn't work (on an iPhone) when a device is managed by MDM. This is the first time I've seen it fail…
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on “My MacBook Setup (the 2024 version)”Submitted The State of External Retina Displays, [Almost] 2022 Edition as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe Verizon versions of iPad Air, iPad Retina Mini, iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C are identical to those sold for AT&T and T-Mobile, and will work on any of those three networks[1]. (It's different/more complicated for older devices.) Also, an agreement Verizon signed when buying their LTE spectrum from the FCC says that all Verizon LTE devices must be carrier-unlocked out of the box[2]. However, Verizon will refuse to ac…
Comment linking /2014/5/21/tmo-vs-vzw-plans
on “T-Mobile USA storing passwords in clear?”Submitted On Nerd Elitism as a story · 4 points
HN discussionDo you know about John Siracusa and toasters (...toaster ovens, actually)? He has literally spent hours talking about toaster (...ovens) on various podcasts. https://www.caseyliss.com/2015/9/10/siracusa-on-toasters . Spoiler: there are problems with many toaster ovens.
Comment linking /2015/9/10/siracusa-on-toasters
on “The Object-Oriented Toaster (1997)”Submitted Footguns as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBeautiful post by Casey Liss, co-host of ATP: https://www.caseyliss.com/2017/4/3/my-favorite-prankster
Comment linking /2017/4/3/my-favorite-prankster
on “Jason Seifer, Co-Host of Ruby Show and IRL Talk, Passed Away”Submitted Converting a Verizon Wireless SIM → ESIM as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe issue of subscription apps came up a lot in recent months on ATP [0] regarding Casey's new app Callsheet [1]. They've been arguing heavily FOR the use of subscriptions, and I came around to agreeing with them. The part that especially convinced me is that subscription revenue creates an incentive for the developer(s) to keep working on the app, in particular after the big wave of launch sales is gone. (You could…
Comment linking /2023/8/7/callsheet
on “37signals Introduces Once – One time payment software”Submitted I Rip Movies as a story · 3 points
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