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2026-04-11 23:30
How to Stop Losing Errors, Commands, and Paths in Your Clipboard
You copied a stack trace to paste into a bug report. Then a teammate pinged you, and you copied their Slack link to open it. Then you hit up-arrow, re-ran the failing command, and copied the new error because you wanted to diff it against the first. By the time you came back to the bug report tab, the original stack trace was gone — three clipboard overwrites deep.
This is not a memory problem. I...