The Ledger. Field notes on remote work.
Essays and engineering notes from the people building WorkTrack HQ — including the bugs that cost our own members hours, and what we changed so they could not happen twice.
Evidence belongs to the person who made it.
Four product decisions that only make sense once you accept the premise — and one long list of things we will therefore never ship.
Your mouse was counted. Your keyboard was not.
macOS hands you an event tap that silently drops every keystroke, reports success, and lets your permission checklist show a green tick over a keyboard you cannot see.
Why the check is sage, and never red.
Colour is grammar, and red is an imperative. An imperative is the wrong mood for a record of somebody's afternoon.
The permission that disappears every time you rebuild.
macOS showed a ticked box for Screen Recording. The tick belonged to a binary that no longer existed, and the app it named could not capture a thing.
We latched the meeting to the microphone.
Window titles told us which call you were in — right up until you switched tabs. Then two machines quietly recorded the same conversation.
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