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no.heger
Personal blog · noheger.at/blogprogrammingdesign
no.heger is a personal blog at noheger.at about programming and design. Since 2026, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Design critiques of Apple's macOS interface, covering the Tahoe icons, window resizing struggles and visual bloat. HN commenters link it as evidence of these UI problems and praise one illustration as a good example.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-01-11
What Hacker News says?
I'm the author, some of the tahoe issues can be seen in: https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/ https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-... there are a lot more, but I don't have the links handy.
Comment linking /blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/
on “Apple Just Lost Me”Submitted The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI feel the opposite. macOS has had excellent UI in the past, and the rationale was usually that Apple took designer feedback seriously. Designers told Apple that advertisements in the notification menu was a no-no, they warned about layering text on low-contrast glass effects. They stopped OSX' UI from becoming visually bloated and low-density like the eventual Big Sur+ design language. We only get these kinds of is…
Comment linking /blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/
on “Make macOS consistently bad (unironically)”Submitted Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe illustration with the breakfast plate is a really good example. https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-...
Comment linking /blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/
on “macOS 26's Cut Corners”I'm assuming/hoping those original guidelines would have prevented the window resizing frustration we have now, along with the other usability downgrades in the support of eyecandy. https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-...
Comment linking /blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/
on “Palm OS User Interface Guidelines [pdf]”