Notes on moving text around.
Short pieces on sharing text and code without an account — what breaks, why, and how we build around it.
2026-08-02 · Engineering
Why link-preview bots silently destroy self-destructing notes
Paste a one-time link into Slack and it is often already burned before the recipient clicks. The mechanism, the fix, and the trap inside the fix.
2026-08-02 · Workflow
5 ways developers share code without a GitHub Gist
Gist is the reflex, not always the right call. Five alternatives — no-login pastes, self-destructing notes, live buffers, branches, sandboxes — and when each fits.