
DualClip - Update_2026.04.04.
DualClip Update — Beyond Text, and a 150ms Correction A few hours ago, I shared DualClip , a slot-based clipboard manager for macOS. Thank you to everyone who checked it out! Since then, I've shipped a few meaningful updates that I didn't cover in the original post. I also owe you a small correction. Let me walk through both. 🔧 First, a correction: 50ms → 150ms In my first post, I wrote that the Atomic Paste operation completes "in less than 50ms." That was wrong. The actual restore delay is 150ms . /// 150ms is an empirically safe value to prevent race conditions. private let restoreDelayMs : Int = 150 150ms was chosen empirically to avoid a race condition — if the clipboard is restored before the target application finishes reading it, the paste silently fails. 50ms sounded cooler, but 150ms is what actually works reliably. Sorry about that. ⚡ How Atomic Paste actually works Since this is the core mechanic of DualClip, I figured it deserves a proper breakdown. When you press the hotk
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