What I Learned Building HiyokoBar — A Menubar App That Does One Thing Per Click

If this is useful, a ❤️ helps others find it. All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. HiyokoBar is a menubar app. Click the icon — panel appears. Do the thing. Click away — panel disappears. It sounds trivial. It took longer than expected to get right. Here's what I learned. The constraint that shaped everything A menubar panel has maybe 400px of vertical space. That's it. This constraint forced decisions I wouldn't have made otherwise: Every feature had to earn its place. No "maybe someone