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Shawn Blanc
Personal blog · shawnblanc.netdesignproductivitywriting
Shawn Blanc's personal blog at shawnblanc.net covers design, productivity and writing. Since 2008, 48 different Hacker News readers have linked it 71 times, most often “Yojimbo, and The Case for Anything Buckets”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (14) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Shawn Blanc's app reviews and guides, including a Pinboard getting-started guide, a Tweetbot review and a Reeder review. Commenters cite them for how these apps work.
- Recommended for · 2 comments
- One commenter calls the Pinboard getting-started guide good; another tells readers to check out the Tweetbot review for more.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 14 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Design, tech, writing, and other creative matters.
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-05-23
- Yojimbo, and The Case for Anything Buckets2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-09-14
- Tweetbot’s Got Personality — Shawn Blanc2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-14
- /2008/02/interview-john-gruber/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-04-02
- /2007/07/why-daring-fireball-is-comment-free/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-02-03
What Hacker News says?
It's true, Fever is an Account type for Reeder. http://shawnblanc.net/2012/06/review-reeder-3-for-iphone/
Comment linking /2012/06/review-reeder-3-for-iphone/
on “Google Reader shutting down”Submitted IPhone’s Misplaced Decline Button? as a story · 60 points
HN discussionAlfred.app workflow for accessing my bookmarks: http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/4426-alfred-pinboard-versio... A better bookmarklet: https://github.com/joelcarranza/particular-pinboard Good guide to getting started: http://shawnblanc.net/2013/09/pinboard-guide/
Comment linking /2013/09/pinboard-guide/
on “Pinboard Turns Five”Submitted Yojimbo, and The Case for Anything Buckets as a story · 23 points
HN discussionThis write up[1] really helped me see the value in Pinboard, and I just decided to jump right into it. I've been much happier using it over Firefox built-in bookmarking tool, and find it 300x better than relying on Evernote. Even with the webclipper getting to and finding clipped items in Evernote was a painfully slow process. On my desktop I have this[2] Alfred.app workflow installed which makes getting to the book…
Comment linking /2013/09/pinboard-guide/
on “Pinboard Turns Five”Submitted Dumb as a story · 14 points
HN discussionHave you tried emailing hn@ycombinator.com and asking? From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html How are stories ranked? The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted. Comments in threads are ranked the same way. Other factors affecting rank include user flags, anti-abuse software, software which demotes overheated discussions, account or site weighting, and moderator act…
Comment linking /2007/07/why-daring-fireball-is-comment-free/
on “The Website Hacker News Is Afraid to Discuss”Submitted Grandpa’s iPad as a story · 10 points
HN discussionMy blog and podcast feeds go around these few main interests of mine: software, art, design, music and Apple. Podcasts: Varieties, science, design. * This American Life. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ * Radiolab. http://www.radiolab.org/series/podcasts/ * Planet Money. http://www.npr.org/planetmoney * Stuff You Should Know. http://www.howstuffworks.com/ * The Infinite Monkey Cage. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b…
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on “Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?”Submitted Clicky Keyboards as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI don't know if I want to value your opinion on browsers of the top feature for you is custom font download. Not the top feature, but one of the most glaring. At the time I was working on a site that used TypeKit and the only platform I was using that TypeKit didn't support was webOS. The whole thing seemed quite odd as they essentially yanked out a working feature of WebKit when making the browser. Flash, OTOH, was…
Comment linking /2011/07/hp-touchpad-review/
on “Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed?”Submitted Tweetbot’s Got Personality — Shawn Blanc as a story · 5 points
HN discussionA quick search of Wikipedia leads to an interview (link below) with this: Now, correct me if I’m wrong – and please fill in any gaps – but here’s what your story looks like to me: In 2002 you were doing freelance consulting, web-development and tech writing. Meanwhile, after months of picking out the right “slate blueish background color” you finally launch Daring Fireball and begin writing articles for which your w…
Comment linking /2008/02/interview-john-gruber/
on “Daring Fireball: The Kids Are All Right”Submitted Which Device for Which Task? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI agree with you, Gruber's posts are indeed sometimes tainted, but Gruber has always claimed that DF is a column, as he explained in an article [0]: If asked to describe Daring Fireball with just one word, I would not choose weblog. Rather, I would call it a column. Given a few more words, I would call it as a Mac column in the form of a weblog. He stated it again in an interview[1]: In 2002, when I started Daring F…
Comment linking /2008/02/interview-john-gruber/
on “Only Apple”Submitted Interview with Daring Fireball's John Gruber as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI find that page hard to read due to its huge font-size. Also when I am somewhere in the text and there is a headline, I have a hard time guessing its level. Some additional decoration or indicators on the side might be nice. The screen highly limits the overview as you cannot scroll away and quickly refind your position, you lost the position. So additional marking of the place in the text would help a lot with tho…
Comment linking /
on “Designing blogs for readers”Submitted How I Self-Published My Book as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe differences are there; superficially, all clients display tweets in a timeline, and provide the functionality that Twitter.com does. The differences abound, though. Check out http://shawnblanc.net/2011/04/tweetbot-review/ for more.
Comment linking /2011/04/tweetbot-review/
on “Tweetbot”Submitted True Fans Instead as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWhy doesnt John have comments enabled in his blog? "Sometimes a design decision is what you don’t put in, as opposed to what you put in." http://shawnblanc.net/2007/07/why-daring-fireball-is-comment... I find his restraint refreshing.
Comment linking /2007/07/why-daring-fireball-is-comment-free/
on “About Adobe's Flash Player Not Having Access to H.264 HW Acceleration on OSX”Submitted Reading on the iPad as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYeah, this was a bit of wishful thinking. I would delete this post if I could. Turns out they just lifted the number of uploads http://shawnblanc.net/2013/11/apple-lifts-the-ceiling-on-pho...
Comment linking /2013/11/apple-lifts-the-ceiling-on-photo-stream/
on “Apple Lifts Photo Stream Cap”Submitted Reedie - iPhone’s Missing Feed Reader as a story · 4 points
HN discussionA quick search led me to http://shawnblanc.net/2007/07/why-daring-fireball-is-comment... I have to say that I think Daring Fireball is better _without_ comments. I presume that this site was set up without John Gruber's consent. This raises the question: Is this a spam blog?
Comment linking /2007/07/why-daring-fireball-is-comment-free/
on “Daring Fireball with comments”Submitted Unread for iPhone – A New Breed of RSS Reader as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI think this is happening already. See RSS sponsorships and tasteful The Deck ads on sites like http://daringfireball.net/ and http://shawnblanc.net/ . Also, it's hard to ignore http://projectwonderful.com/ if you've been to a webcomic lately.
Comment linking /
on “Practical Micropayments for Digital Art”Submitted The New Backblaze iPhone App as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Long-Time Apple Nerd’s Review of the Galaxy Nexus & 1st Experience w/ Android as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Can’t Buy Word of Mouth as a story · 3 points
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