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• Why a firewall should fail open, not closed

  There’s a quiet design decision buried in every outbound firewall: what happens when the rule engine itself isn’t available? The lazy answer is to block everything until the daemon is back. The humane answer — and the one the go…

• The menu bar is the best real estate on the Mac

  The best Mac utilities understand something about attention: the menu bar is prime real estate precisely because it’s ambient. A good menu bar tool is glanceable when you want it and invisible when you don’t. It never demands a …

• No telemetry is a feature, not a sacrifice

  There’s a widespread assumption in software that you need analytics to build good products — that without a firehose of usage data you’re flying blind. We think that’s backwards for the kind of tools we make. When yo…

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