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tyler.io
Personal blog · tyler.io · on HN as tylerhallprogrammingsecurity
tyler.io is a personal blog at tyler.io about programming and security. Since 2014, 39 different Hacker News readers have linked it 56 times, most often “240 Invisible Pixels”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link tyler.io's posts on macOS and Apple UI design, notifications, and broken Catalina-era software, usually as supporting evidence for their own points about usability.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
mostly nonsense
Most-linked posts?
- 240 Invisible Pixels6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-12-15
- Perfectly Cropped4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-10-25
- Broken4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-10-10
- macOS 10.15 Vista2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-08
- Aftermath: 42 seconds2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-15
- Escape from Squircle Jail2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-09
- A dumb approach to getting around macOS’s security UI and making a better UX2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-21
What Hacker News says?
The author seems to do a lot of unusual and roundabout things with the software on their personal mac. It's cool to see somebody fully exploring personal software and customization, but what they're doing sounds weird to me. From another post[0] on their blog: >You’ll be able to upgrade to version 2.0 for a one-time purchase of $6.99 – no subscriptions here! No subscriptions here, just me rewriting the app and decid…
Comment linking /reviving-an-old-mac-app/
on “Broken”Submitted Broken as a story · 1354 points
HN discussionThis is what happens when you try to do that - you pop up so many prompts that everyone just clicks "Allow" out of frustration anyways, which defeats the purpose. https://tyler.io/macos-10-15-vista/ https://tyler.io/broken/
Comment linking /broken/
on “Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store”Submitted Perfectly Cropped as a story · 1232 points
HN discussionHey, not sure if this is a side-effect of you taking this post down but I was interested in reading another of your posts about B2 vs S3 Glacier and am getting "Error establishing a database connection". https://tyler.io/followup-comparing-my-current-b2-storage-co... Actually now I look at it, a lot of pages don't seem to work. I guess it's just the classic Hacker News friendly DDOS.
Comment linking /followup-comparing-my-current-b2-storage-costs-against-amazon-s3-glacier-deep-archive/
on “I think Catalina 10.15.4 broke SSH”Submitted DIY Video Hosting as a story · 509 points
HN discussionhttps://tyler.io
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on “Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?”Submitted macOS 10.15 Vista as a story · 386 points
HN discussionNow due to the auto-hiding scrollbar and no cut-off list items to the bottom, people have no idea that scrolling vertically is possible https://tyler.io/perfectly-cropped/ But at least we've rotated the problem by 90 degrees :P
Comment linking /perfectly-cropped/
on “Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore principles of design (2015)”Submitted DefaultApp as a story · 355 points
HN discussionThanks for the recommendation. When looking for screenshots I found Tyler Roland’s review and follow up and am intrigued. https://tyler.io/mailmate/ https://tyler.io/additional-mailmate-tips/ MailMate’s correspondence viewer looks great. The conversations add-on for Thunderbird keeps locking up for me, even when I’m in the middle of writing an email. Maddening.
Comment linking /additional-mailmate-tips/
on “What’s New in Thunderbird 78”Submitted The Financial Side of Building Mac Apps as a story · 175 points
HN discussionhttps://tyler.io/perfectly-cropped/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21353920 Here it is, I knew I'd seen a nearly identical story before.
Comment linking /perfectly-cropped/
on “Whatever Happened to UI Affordances?”Submitted Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window as a story · 171 points
HN discussionRelated: No scroll bars on iOS makes it look like features aren’t available and no indication that you need to scroll. https://tyler.io/perfectly-cropped/
Comment linking /perfectly-cropped/
on “Who Killed the Scrollbar?”Submitted Augmented Reality Ducks as a story · 90 points
HN discussionWhat about all the iCloud bugs? https://tyler.io/broken/
Comment linking /broken/
on “Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth”Submitted Shelley: macOS menu bar app that runs shell scripts upon authorized HTTP request as a story · 25 points
HN discussionI'm using Feedly. Checking it once a couple of weeks and happy about my flow. Here are the blogs that I follow: - https://jvns.ca/atom.xml - http://rachelbythebay.com/w/atom.xml - https://blog.kowalczyk.info/atom.xml - https://ashfurrow.com/feed.xml - https://sneak.berlin/feed.xml - https://sookocheff.com/index.xml - https://www.hanselman.com/blog/feed/rss - https://zachholman.com/atom.xml - https://www.wezm.net/v2/…
Comment linking /feed/
on “Ask HN: Do you maintain a list of RSS links of GOAT blogs?”Submitted GrannySmith: macOS app to backup Photos.app with shared albums, comments as a story · 5 points
HN discussionFor notifications, here[1] is a pretty good overview of the problem. A collection of comments on reformatted alert messages: [2]. Comment on icons, translucency and other quirks: [3]. [1] https://tyler.io/240-invisible-pixels/ [2] https://mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/03/big-surs-narrow-alerts/ [3] https://medium.com/macoclock/why-apple-has-broken-some-basic... Not to mention posts on Reddit, Twitter, blogs, etc. about lo…
Comment linking /240-invisible-pixels/
on “Habits, UI changes, and OS stagnation”Submitted Catalina 10.15.4 Broke SSH as a story · 5 points
HN discussionNo and I don't intend to for a while after reading this: https://tyler.io/broken/
Comment linking /broken/
on “Ask HN: Have You Upgraded to macOS Catalina Yet?”Submitted TextBuddy for macOS as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted macOS 10.15 Vista as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Capture Thing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Invisible Pixels as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted 240 Invisible Pixels as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted StopTheJeff as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Entire Amount of Commerce as a story · 2 points
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