Beetroot v1.6.5 — Your Clipboard Can Now Read Images
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AI Vision transforms let your clipboard read images — OCR, describe, extract data, translate. Background job queue means no more UI freezing. All AI providers moved to native Rust.
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Release notes, changelogs, and development updates for my projects.
The Invisible Backslash: How a Shell Escaping Bug Silently Corrupted 20 Releases
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A debugging war story. My Tauri signing key worked for 20 releases, then stopped. Three hours later, I found a literal backslash hiding inside the password — put there by shell-quote, invisible to everyone, including me.
Beetroot v1.6.4 — Preview Panel Redesign and Overlay You Can Actually Customize
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New preview panel with three content-aware modes for text, code, and images. Overlay notification now customizable — position, duration, animation. Plus fixes for ghost highlights, click-blocking, and filter reset.
How I Fixed OSC 52 Clipboard in xterm.js Through tmux
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OSC 52 clipboard doesn't work in xterm.js through tmux. The fix isn't set-clipboard or terminal-features — it's allow-passthrough. Here's the full debugging story with working code.
Beetroot v1.6.3 — Copied Overlay, Explorer Images, GPT-5.4
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System-wide 'Copied' overlay confirms every clipboard capture. Fixed images copied from Explorer. OpenAI models upgraded to GPT-5.4. Security hardening.
Beetroot v1.6.2 — The Truncation Bug
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A hotfix for v1.6.1's content truncation — AI transforms, preview, and copy were silently working with partial text. Plus Alt+T toggle and filter count fixes.
Beetroot v1.6.1 — The Keyboard Rewrite Nobody Saw
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A complete rewrite of how Beetroot handles keyboard input in no-focus mode. Plus a refreshed preview panel with arrow navigation, and fixes for every bug users reported in v1.6.0.
Beetroot v1.6.0 — Rust Search Engine, No-Focus Window
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Beetroot's search engine moved to Rust — accent folding, typo tolerance, prefix matching. Plus a no-focus window that doesn't interrupt your workflow.
I Mass-Replaced Fuse.js in My Clipboard Manager. It Took 8 Iterations.
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Fuse.js returned 98 results for 'local v'. Two days and 8 iterations later — from same-field matching to Unicode word boundaries to scored merge — I finally got search right. Here's every wrong turn.
Beetroot v1.5.1 — ML Code Detection and Search That Actually Works
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Beetroot now uses VS Code's TensorFlow.js model to detect 54 programming languages. Plus a completely rewritten search engine — 'local v' returns 9 results instead of 98.
How I Added 5 AI Providers to a Tauri Desktop App
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Building multi-provider AI in Tauri: OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, and Ollama. Three integration patterns, a Rust proxy for localhost, and why browser security made local models the hardest part.
Beetroot v1.5.0 — Five AI Providers, Smarter App Detection
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Beetroot now supports OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, and local models. Plus AI sparkles, Ollama presets, and smarter source app tracking.