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The decisions behind
the small details.

Engineering notes, privacy arguments, and the product decisions too specific for release notes.
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Engineering8 min read

The drawer is not a window

It is an NSPanel that never takes focus, which is the only reason ⌘V can land in the app you were already in. What that costs, and the three AppKit behaviors we had to give up to get it.

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Privacy · 11 min

What a clipboard should refuse to remember

Every clipboard manager is a keylogger you installed on purpose. The interesting engineering is not in what it keeps - it is in the classifier deciding, locally and in a millisecond, what never gets written down.

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Design · 6 min

Seven content types, and the eighth that keeps not happening

Text, links, code, colors, data, images, files. Every few months someone asks for an eighth, and every few months the answer is that it is really one of the seven wearing a hat.

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