🚨 Fixes
Rectangle Is Not Working: The Complete Diagnostic Order
Shortcuts do nothing, windows will not move, the menu bar icon is missing. Nine checks in the order that resolves the largest nu…
24 Jul 2026
10 guides
Things that go wrong, and why
Each guide starts with the symptom, separates the causes that share it, and ends with a cause rather than a list of things to try.
👻 Fixes
Menu Items Greyed Out and "Unable to Obtain Accessibility Element"
The movement commands are disabled and the log repeats an accessibility element error. What that message means, which apps trigg…
22 Jul 2026
⚙️ Fixes
Rectangle Stopped Working After a macOS Update: Why, and the Fix
Every major macOS release produces a wave of identical reports. The cause is the privacy database, not the app, and the fix is a…
20 Jul 2026
⌨️ Fixes
Finding the App That Is Stealing Your Shortcut
Some shortcuts work and others do nothing. A systematic method for identifying the application that registered the same combinat…
18 Jul 2026
🧲 Fixes
Drag-to-Snap Is Not Working, or Working Far Too Eagerly
Snap areas that do not trigger, trigger by accident, or fight with the built-in macOS tiling. Margins, ignored areas, modifier g…
16 Jul 2026
💾 Fixes
Settings and Shortcuts Reset on Every Launch
Custom shortcuts vanish after a restart, terminal settings do not take effect, or a config file keeps being reapplied. Where pre…
14 Jul 2026
🖥️ Fixes
Windows Land on the Wrong Display
Next-display goes the wrong way, windows scatter after undocking, stacked monitors confuse the ordering. Plus the display-order …
12 Jul 2026
🐌 Fixes
Chrome Got Slower After Installing a Window Manager. Here Is Why
Granting Accessibility permission causes Chromium to enable full web accessibility, which is measurably expensive on heavy pages…
10 Jul 2026
🗑️ Fixes
Uninstalling Completely, Including the Shortcuts That Keep Working Afterwards
Dragging the app to the Trash leaves a privacy grant, a preferences file and sometimes a login item behind. The full removal seq…
08 Jul 2026
📐 Fixes
Windows Come Out the Wrong Size: Gaps, Minimums and Curtain Resize
A half that is not half, a maximise that leaves a margin, resize steps that move the wrong edge. Every setting that silently cha…
06 Jul 2026