Notes on windows, memory and the desks we work at.
Why a window is so hard to recognise twice, what an operating system will and will not tell an app about your desktop, and why the thing you lost when you closed that window was never the window.
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Why a window is so hard to recognise twice
A window has no lasting name. Its ID dies when it closes, its title moves while you work, and its app will happily open forty more that look identical. Here is how a note finds its way back to the right one.
FensterTechnikmacOS - 4 min read
The Accessibility permission on macOS: what an app can actually see
macOS asks you to hand over one of its broadest permissions with a single checkbox and no detail. Here is what that checkbox really grants, why some apps genuinely need it, and what to ask before you tick it.
macOSDatenschutzBerechtigungen - 4 min read
Sticky notes on a Mac: what Stickies does, and where it stops
macOS has shipped a sticky-note app since 1994, and most people try it once. Here is what Stickies is genuinely good at, the four things it cannot do, and how to pick a replacement that fixes the right one.
macOSNotizenVergleich - 4 min read
How to remember what you were doing, when fourteen windows are open
The expensive part of an interruption is not the interruption. It is the twenty minutes afterwards spent working out where you were. A short, concrete system for making that cost close to zero.
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