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Tyler Wolf Leonhardt
Personal blog · tyleo.com/blog · on HN as tyleogamesprogramming
Tyler Wolf Leonhardt's personal blog at tyleo.com covers games and programming. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 41 times, most often “Frosted glass from games to the web”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-11, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
No comment discusses the writing. The linked posts cover CSS frosted-glass effects using backdrop-filter and a Hacker News thread on it, plus the blog index page.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I make video games, software, and do yoga. Explore my projects, dev blog, and tools covering everything from Rust and TypeScript to AI-powered game art.
Most-linked posts?
- Frosted glass from games to the web2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-24
What Hacker News says?
In the Cross-Platform Dynamic Light section I describe `data-*` attributes ( https://www.tyleo.com/html-glass.html#cross-platform-dynamic... ). The dragging works with another bit of JavaScript--the only other bit on the page--which uses a `data-click-drag-area` to define an element which will contain draggable children and a `data-click-drag-item` attribute to indicate a child can be dragged. The the parent must be…
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on “Frosted glass from games to the web”Submitted Frosted glass from games to the web as a story · 791 points
HN discussionMy personal site https://www.tyleo.com After years of having the New Year’s resolution, “make a personal site.” I finally got past my procrastination and did it! It’s live and I’m filling it out with things I’ve done over the years.
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?”Submitted Show HN: Rad Type - Can we make gamepad typing fast? as a story · 42 points
HN discussionI recently added RSS to my personal site ( https://www.tyleo.com/ ) Even with a custom implementation it’s a simple thing to support. You can find the whole spec here: https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification I’ll mention that there is a competing Atom specification which is compatible with all notable RSS readers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(web_standard) . The POV I’ve seen on HN favors Atom because it of…
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on “I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too”Submitted The First Idiot Principle as a story · 25 points
HN discussionHow does this compare with this that was posted on HN a few weeks ago? https://www.tyleo.com/html-glass.html
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on “Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter”Submitted The Excommunicated Devs Making Games with AI as a story · 9 points
HN discussionAnother point not mentioned in this article is that Windows desktops are incredibly slow these days. I did some compilation tests on a 2025 Windows desktop with an i9 vs some MacBooks and a new top-of-the-line Windows machine can’t even keep up with a bottom-tier M1 MacBook Pro. https://www.tyleo.com/blog/compiler-performance-on-2025-devi...
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on “Are consumers just tech debt to Microsoft?”Submitted How We Synchronized Editing for Rec Room's Multiplayer Scripting System as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIf you accept the default output you get slop. But you can use these tools as a starting point to get something good much faster than doing everything by hand. I wrote a guide for this with voxel art and you can see some examples up top: https://www.tyleo.com/blog/game-ready-voxel-meshes-with-low-...
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on “An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop”Submitted We Can Make Each Other Better – Reflection on how small acts can inspire others as a story · 3 points
HN discussionShoutout to my own: https://www.tyleo.com
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on “Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?”Submitted Building Products People Are Glad They Used as a story · 2 points
HN discussionthis url https://www.tyleo.com/blog gives a 404 when infact it should retrieve a list of all the blog posts. Might want to fix that
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on “The Excommunicated Devs Making Games with AI”Submitted The Terminal Star – The dopamine machine that writes your code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://www.tyleo.com I write mostly about software and have some links to my projects.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Pour Your Soul In – An Ode to Engineering as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI happen to be shutting down an online game right now. https://www.tyleo.com/blog/sunsetting-rec-room-how-to-give-a... The sad truth is that these things have high operating costs, especially if they need moderation. I would guess this bill just makes it more risky to make the games in the first place. It’s already brutally hard to make money on games. I feel like the effect of this might just be that shutting an on…
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on “California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down”Submitted Game-Ready Voxel Meshes with Low-Cost AI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI hit principal pretty early on in my career. I keep a detailed work history for anyone interested in what that journey is like: https://www.tyleo.com/professional-work-history It's both hustle and luck. One reason I left Microsoft was because I wasn't on track there. The organization was good but also top heavy so there wasn't room for growth. When I joined Rec Room the tech I built really clicked and the company s…
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on “I Caught the Car”Submitted Compiler Performance on 2025 Devices as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is a fun tool. I compared https://www.tyleo.com to Hacker News and won (Hacker News got 2.7, not hard to beat). What I really wanted though was just a way to get my own site’s score without having a competitor.
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on “Show HN: Site Mogging”Submitted Ten Developer Commandments: Practical rules for modern software builders as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLocation: Seattle Remote: Optional Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Games, Web, C#, C++, TypeScript Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyleo/ or https://www.tyleo.com/professional-work-history Email: news.ycombinator@tyleo.com About: I'm a technical leader with 10+ years’ experience shipping consumer products at scale. I most recently owned the technical roadmap for a 60-person product organization. I previous…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)”Submitted Pieces of Truth as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is a neat little project. I published a post about a week ago on an easy way to make voxel meshes which may pair nicely: https://www.tyleo.com/blog/game-ready-voxel-meshes-with-low-... Even if you don’t want to use the AI part of that guide, the Voxel Max tool I recommend is a standout voxel editor.
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on “VoxCSS – CSS voxel engine for the DOM”Submitted Write Satisfying Software: Is your code satisfying, or just beautiful? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI recommend people just update their Claude Code status line so that changes like this are in Claude Code itself. https://www.tyleo.com/blog/love-letter-to-the-claude-code-do...
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on “Show HN: macOS menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota”Submitted Sunsetting Rec Room: How to Give a Beloved Product the Ending It Deserves as a story · 1 points
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