Tyler Hall
tyler.io · Personal blog · on HN since 2014
Tyler Hall, a Mac developer, writes about macOS quirks, app design, and small software projects.
What HN saysHN links it for his post on 240 invisible pixels in macOS notifications, and commenters also mention his MailMate review and a B2 versus S3 Glacier comparison.
39HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1240 Invisible Pixels6 people · 11 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 2Broken4 people · 1.4K points · first shared 2019 · 545 comments on HN
- 3Perfectly Cropped4 people · 1.2K points · first shared 2019 · 553 comments on HN
- 4macOS 10.15 Vista3 people · 390 points · first shared 2019 · 315 comments on HN
- 5A dumb approach to getting around macOS’s security UI and making a better UX2 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 6Aftermath: 42 seconds2 people · 3 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
- 7Escape from Squircle Jail2 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 8DIY Video Hosting1 people · 509 points · first shared 2020 · 198 comments on HN
- 9DefaultApp1 people · 355 points · first shared 2020 · 126 comments on HN
- 10The Financial Side of Building Mac Apps1 people · 175 points · first shared 2014 · 41 comments on HN
- 11Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window1 people · 171 points · first shared 2025 · 102 comments on HN
- 12Augmented Reality Ducks1 people · 90 points · first shared 2021 · 19 comments on HN
- 13Shelley: macOS menu bar app that runs shell scripts upon authorized HTTP request1 people · 25 points · first shared 2020 · 7 comments on HN
- 14GrannySmith: macOS app to backup Photos.app with shared albums, comments1 people · 5 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 15Catalina 10.15.4 Broke SSH1 people · 5 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
christefano · 2020-07-19
Thanks 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.
bspammer · 2020-03-31
Hey, 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-costs-agains…
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.
ryeguy_24 · 2020-02-08
mindwork · 2022-07-22
I'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/rss.xml
- https://alexdanco.com/feed/
- https://tyler.io/feed/
- https://tylertringas.com/feed/
makecheck · 2021-07-21
For 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-design-pr…
Not to mention posts on Reddit, Twitter, blogs, etc. about lots of these UI quirks.
Dylan16807 · 2021-06-27
https://tyler.io/perfectly-cropped/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21353920
Here it is, I knew I'd seen a nearly identical story before.
wlesieutre · 2019-12-22
Now 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
andrei_says_ · 2019-10-30
No and I don't intend to for a while after reading this: https://tyler.io/broken/
scarface74 · 2019-10-25
Related:
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/
jonahss · 2019-10-11
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 deciding to charge for the new version every so often.
[0] https://tyler.io/reviving-an-old-mac-app/
btown · 2019-10-10
This 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/
throwaway1777 · 2019-10-21
What about all the iCloud bugs? https://tyler.io/broken/