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TechReflect
techreflect.net · Personal blog · on HN since 2020
Blog by a former Apple engineer sharing stories from working on Aperture, Mac OS X, and other Apple projects.
What HN saysOne commenter loves the whole blog as a look inside Apple and read every post; another criticizes a rambling post as a poor model for speaking out.
22HN people shared it
2linked it in comments
36stories submitted
387story points
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Most-shared posts
- 1Apple Aperture: Senior QA (2004-2005)4 people · 155 points · first shared 2020 · 71 comments on HN
- 2Desktop Pictures Taken by Steve Jobs4 people · 6 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 3Rising from the Ashes: Stage Manager2 people · 58 points · first shared 2022 · 6 comments on HN
- 4The little things Apple misses from Steve Jobs2 people · 5 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 5Apple Books 2022, in Pictures2 people · 4 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 6Origin of macOS Poof Animation2 people · 3 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 7Killing one bird with two-and-a-half stones in Mac OS X Mail2 people · 2 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 8When would Mac OS X ship?2 people · 2 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 9Magic Mailboxes1 people · 47 points · first shared 2020 · 11 comments on HN
- 10Things I'd Change About Auto-Correct1 people · 41 points · first shared 2020 · 62 comments on HN
- 11The Power of Dopey Ideas1 people · 28 points · first shared 2020 · 1 comments on HN
- 12Rising from the Ashes: Stage Manager1 people · 7 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 13This Icon Is Too Horsey1 people · 7 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 14Old Apple prototypes: Viewing minimized/recent documents1 people · 4 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 15Becoming disabled while working a tech job1 people · 4 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
Wowfunhappy · 2020-03-23
I love this entire blog! I learned about it when another story—about the development of Aperature—was posted to HN a few weeks ago, and I've since read through every post. Great little peak inside of Apple.
I think my favorite, very short story might be: https://techreflect.net/2019/05/30/horsey/
hobofan · 2020-03-08
I wouldn't want to encourage anyone else to write such a rambling "speaking out" blog post that you can't really take anything away from. There are good ways to write such blog posts, e.g these accounts from an ex-Apple employee[0], that nicely lay out what was going wrong. I tried to extract similar information from this blog post, but failed, as it was filled with so many detours, vagueness, and subjective name calling about the company in general rather than an actual retelling on how he personally was supposedly mistreated.
[0]: https://techreflect.net/2019/12/10/aperture-senior-qa-2004-2005/