CocoaPods Blog
blog.cocoapods.org · Company blog · on HN since 2013
The CocoaPods team posts project news on the iOS and macOS dependency manager, including releases, support plans, and incident post-mortems.
What HN saysHN cites it for the rate-limiting post-mortem on GitHub load and the support plan, which a commenter says avoids breakages with a reasonable timeline.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Master spec-repo rate limiting post‑mortem3 people · 55 points · first shared 2016 · 5 comments on HN
- 2CocoaPods 1.03 people · 28 points · first shared 2016 · 1 comments on HN
- 3CocoaPods Support and Maintenance Plans3 people · 5 points · first shared 2024 · 1 comments on HN
- 4CocoaPods trunk read-only plan2 people · 250 points · first shared 2024 · 113 comments on HN
- 5CocoaPods announces Auth Server2 people · 46 points · first shared 2014 · 24 comments on HN
- 6Starting Open Source2 people · 4 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 7CocoaPods in 20142 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 8CocoaPods: Repairing Our Broken Specs (Git) Repository1 people · 18 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 9CocoaPods acquired!1 people · 10 points · first shared 2014 · 3 comments on HN
- 10Eloy Durán steps down as Cocoapods' lead developer1 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · 1 comments on HN
- 11CocoaPods 0.27 and improved installation UX1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 12Cocoapods Test Jam - campaign for untested iOS/OSX libraries1 people · 1 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 13Cocoapods 0.36 released, with support for Frameworks and Swift1 people · 1 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 14CocoaPods Commiter Coins1 people · 1 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 15CocoaPods Bug Bash1 people · first shared 2014
What HN people wrote when they linked it
orta · 2014-04-25
I've been using AppCode off & on now for about 6 months. What impresses me is how responsive the AppCode staff have been around my logged bugs and feedback. We worked with them as part of the CocoaPods bug bash and that turned out amazing.
I've been playing around with 3.0 today and its definitely a better piece of software, still does all the same refactoring and I'm very happy with multi-line editing, I've been wishing to have that in Xcode for a long long time. I normally switch to TextMate to do things like set a lot of properties to readonly.
AppCode: https://github.com/orta/AppCode Bash: http://blog.cocoapods.org/CocoaPods-Bug-Bash
( edit: wow it's difficult to include links.. )
karel-3d · 2025-09-01
The reasoning is here, from 2024
https://blog.cocoapods.org/CocoaPods-Support-Plans/
The timeline in the original article seems very reasonable to me. They go out of their way to avoid breakages.
zbentley · 2021-04-24
Not brew, but a very similar set of issues were faced by the GitHub team with the CocoaPods project, which at the time worked similar to Homebrew in that they used github as a CDN/host in a somewhat uncommon way:
https://blog.cocoapods.org/Master-Spec-Repo-Rate-Limiting-Post-Mortem/
https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/4989#issuecomment-193772…
dang · 2021-04-20
I think it would be fair for the thread to point to your post, so I've swapped your URL in for https://blog.cocoapods.org/CocoaPods-Trunk-RCE/ above.
pierrec · 2016-05-26
>GitHub should look into this, otherwise we get git repos with directories that are thousands in length.
In a way, Github already looked into it extensively while helping resolve the issue where CocoaPods monopolized their servers and hit CPU rate-limiting. Whether it's abusive or not was already debated ad nauseum when it happened, but either way they came to a set of solutions which might help anyone else wanting to use Github for package management:
http://blog.cocoapods.org/Master-Spec-Repo-Rate-Limiting-Post-Mortem/