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aryamanshardaon A Deeper Dive into Apple's App Site Association File

The article provides a comprehensive overview of Apple's App Site Association file, which is crucial for iOS developers implementing Universal Links in their apps. It breaks down how the file serves as a secure way to validate links between websites and apps, discusses how Apple's CDN operates, offers tips for debugging universal links, and explains how to track refresh times for Apple's AASA CDN cache.

aryamanshardaon Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

Totally agree, would love to have a local instance running

aryamanshardaon Ask HN: What newsletters are you currently reading?

Mine are mostly iOS specific, but here are a few of my favorites:

- Swift by Sundell (https://www.swiftbysundell.com/subscribe/)

- Indie Watch (https://indie.watch/)

- Swiftlee Weekly (https://www.avanderlee.com/)

aryamanshardaon Tell HN: I made $1000 with my app and now making $500/mo

Congrats on the success! I just started a newsletter - Indie Watch (http://indie.watch/) - that features cool apps built by indie iOS developers.

Would you mind if I featured your app in our first release?

Since it's our first release, I can't guarantee any results or conversions, but the mailing list has a few hundred people on it, so it couldn't hurt...

aryamanshardaon Ask HN: Share your personal site

https://digitalbunker.dev/

I write mostly about iOS Development and occasionally about the side-projects I'm working on.

aryamanshardaon Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

Awesome Viewer for GitHub's Awesome Lists: http://awesome.digitalbunker.dev/

I've been working on a viewer for Github's Awesome lists to make them more useable. I haven't finished it yet, but I'm close.

With most of the lists being text based, it was hard to know if the repo it linked to was still being maintained and popular enough to safely use in personal projects.

Now anyone that uses my project can easily visualize all of the repos and query them to find projects that are still actively maintained.

aryamanshardaon Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle

Very cool!

aryamanshardaon How Do Computers Generate Random Numbers?

When you say Mersenne-Twister isn't good enough, what are the other shortcomings apart from speed? It seems that even modern versions of Python are continuing to use it...

aryamanshardaon How Do Computers Generate Random Numbers?

You're absolutely right. The attached code was for 40K and I just mislabeled the graph. I've updated it - thanks for catching that!

aryamanshardaon Understanding Daemons

I was a bit conflicted on the pronunciation, but after verifying with a few sources it seems like it's pronounced just like "demon"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computing)#:~:text=The....

aryamanshardaon Show HN: Automating My Studio Apartment

Good to know! I'll check it out! I just started diving into electronics a couple weeks ago, so still learning what tools are out there.

aryamanshardaon Ask HN: How do you drive traffic to your side projects?

Same :/

I had 2 "successes" 5 years apart. Most recently, ProductHunt got me 30K views in one day on this site, http://lowpolygonart.com/ and I think the backlinks that I got as a result have carried the site for a couple years, but any of the other projects I've released have been dead on arrival.

aryamanshardaon Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

I'm primarily an iOS developer and wanted to start learning web development so I built two really simple sites:

http://pointillism.digitalbunker.dev/: I've always been into generative art, so I built this site that takes a source image and recreates it in a Pointillism style

http://gitrandom.digitalbunker.dev/ : Generally when I'm struggling to come up with project ideas, I'll just browse GitHub. This site lets you explore random GitHub projects by language and topic.

I built the sites using Vapor, so I could continue to use Swift and just learn one new thing at a time.

I'm probably going to pick up some iOS app too to leverage the new hobbies people are discovering being at home (i.e. bread making).

aryamanshardaon Pointillism – Art Generator from Image

I've always been interested in computer generated art, so I built a web app to generate pointillism art from a source image. It's my first website I've ever made from scratch and not particularly useful, but it's entertaining. The Pointillism script is written in Processing.