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.
What HN saysHN 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.
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Most-shared posts
- 1A Short Note on Voice Assistants and Old People Who Don't Hear Well3 people · 8 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 2Markdown Babel: Universal Tool to Make Markdown Files Executable2 people · 5 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 3Funding Open Source Software as a Third Party?2 people · 4 points · first shared 2021 · 1 comments on HN
- 4Distribute Your App Outside the Mac App Store2 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 5Atkinson Hyperlegible Font1 people · 293 points · first shared 2021 · 86 comments on HN
- 6What's the problem with old but excellent Mac apps?1 people · 89 points · first shared 2022 · 141 comments on HN
- 7Using 2 Editors Because Xcode Is Dumb1 people · 84 points · first shared 2025 · 102 comments on HN
- 8The Rake and its Prongs (2024)1 people · 11 points · first shared 2025 · 2 comments on HN
- 9macOS High Sierra “Month 13 is out of bounds”1 people · 5 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 10Test, Save, and Execute HTTP Requests with Hurl (Or Restclient.el)1 people · 5 points · first shared 2025 · 2 comments on HN
- 11High Sierra: Help Main Menu Is Broken and Freezes Apps1 people · 3 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 12Low App Prices Are Preemptive Excuses1 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 13TextKit Overview1 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 14Solve database mapping problems and the impedance problem of ActiveRecord1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 15Fairphone Fairbuds Are a Great Idea1 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
rudedogg · 2021-03-04
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/
ctietze · 2021-02-05
Wrote a short follow up in case you're interested: https://christiantietze.de/posts/2021/01/voice-assistants-and-my-grann…
chewz · 2023-07-06
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-a…
dreamcompiler · 2021-02-05
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-grann…
CharlesW · 2017-02-14
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-fasts… #noaffiliation