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Chrome Extension Clipboard Access: The Architecture Behind Clipboard History IO
January 18, 2025
A technical guide to implementing clipboard monitoring in Chrome extensions using Service Workers and the Offscreen API - and how to avoid the performance pitfalls I encountered.
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How Plasmo's Type-Safe Messaging Helped Me Ship Clipboard History IO in One Week
December 20, 2024
After building 50+ Chrome extensions and maintaining my own boilerplate, I discovered Plasmo. Here's how its messaging API transformed my development workflow and made Clipboard History IO possible.
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Why I Stopped Trusting Closed-Source Clipboard Managers (And Built My Own)
October 12, 2024
The day I almost pasted my AWS credentials into a Slack channel changed how I think about clipboard security forever. Here's why I built an open-source alternative.
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