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Tyler Gaw
Personal blog · tylergaw.com/articlesdesignprogramming
Tyler Gaw's personal blog at tylergaw.com covers design and programming. Since 2010, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Building OS X Apps with JavaScript”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Tyler Gaw's posts on building OS X apps with JavaScript, citing them as a source for JavaScript bridging to Apple's frameworks on OS X and iOS. No commenter comments on the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A personal website. Since 2006
Most-linked posts?
- Building OS X Apps with JavaScript5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-09-28
- The Old Internet Is Still Here3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-26
What Hacker News says?
I'd love to hear the experiences and opinions of anyone who knows about building iOS and Android apps with NativeScript and Angular 2 [1], or who has used NativeScript [2] itself, please. NativeScript has a JavaScript<=>Java bridge on Android, and a JavaScript<=>Objective C bridge on iOS, like a cross platform version of Apple's ObjC bridge used in OS/X JavaScript for Automation [3] [4] [5] (but AFAIK Apple's ObjC b…
Comment linking /articles/building-osx-apps-with-js
on “Angular 2 Final Released”Submitted Building OS X Apps with JavaScript as a story · 166 points
HN discussionDid "Building MacOS apps with JavaScript" ever get any traction? http://tylergaw.com/articles/building-osx-apps-with-js
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on “React Native for OS X”Submitted Show HN: ColorMe as a story · 103 points
HN discussionAnd introduced in OS X 10.10 is the ability to build an OS X app in pure JavaScript: http://tylergaw.com/articles/building-osx-apps-with-js (Atwood's Law in action)
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on “OS X app in plain C”Submitted The Old Internet Is Still Here as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYou can write full OS X apps in JavaScript: http://tylergaw.com/articles/building-osx-apps-with-js JavaScript bridging works on iOS too!
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on “Swift Programming Language Evolution”Submitted From Sass to PostCSS as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI think this could be mitigated in some cases with better tooling. Many programming languages just make it needlessly difficult to interact with anything that's not part of their ecosystem. Check out parcel [0], a web application bundler. It has built-in support for lots of different assets [1], with two notable inclusions being ReasonML and Rust! In this blog post [2] they highlight how easy it is to import Rust co…
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on “The Costs of Programming Language Fragmentation”Submitted Starting Something New as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Old Internet Is Still Here as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Re-encode AVIF images for iOS 16 (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Awesome animated typography in CSS3 (warning: <audio>) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Old Internet Is Still Here as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Browsers Should Have a Native Control for Per-Site Color Scheme as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Failing at Using a Local LLM for Vinyl Record Color Extraction as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Something to Latch Onto as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using ChatGPT to Write CloudFormation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building OS X Apps with JavaScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted True Detective style opening titles in CSS as a story · 1 points
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