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    Christian Tietze

    christiantietze.de · Personal blog · on HN since 2013

    Christian Tietze, a Mac and iOS developer in Germany, writes about Swift, indie app distribution, productivity tools, and software business.

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    What HN says

    HN commenters link his posts on Swift string API quirks, selling Mac apps outside the App Store, voice assistants for older people, and Fastmail masked emails.

    Stats for nerds
    17HN people shared it
    40linked in comments
    544story points
    Jul 2023last shared
    2017people per year2023

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    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • rudedoggMar 2021

      Funny, the ergonomics of the Swift string API are so bad that I've started learning a lower level language for parsing, etc.

      Here's my favorite WTF: https://christiantietze.de/posts/2020/01/string-index-offset-limit/

    • chewzJul 2023

      Fastmail without 1Password but with maskedmail-cli...

      [1] https://github.com/dvcrn/maskedemail-cli

      [2] https://christiantietze.de/posts/2023/04/create-fastmail-masked-mail-addresses-maskedemail-cli/

    • CharlesWFeb 2017

      Even if you're not the mighty Rogue Amoeba, services like FastSpring[1] seem to make it pretty easy.

      [1] http://christiantietze.de/books/make-money-outside-mac-app-store-fastspring/ #noaffiliation

    • dreamcompilerFeb 2021

      Inline link to voice assistants essay was a 404 for me. Here's the correct one until author fixes it:

      https://christiantietze.de/posts/2021/01/voice-assistants-and-my-granny/

    • ctietzeFeb 2021

      Wrote a short follow up in case you're interested: https://christiantietze.de/posts/2021/01/voice-assistants-and-my-granny/

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