On January 2023, I added an option in Raycast to replace ⌃⌥⇧⌘ with ✦ for the Hyper key. This probably took 15min. I needed a symbol for the Hyper key and found one on Wikipedia But it spawned up an interesting side quest

the windows search announcement reminded me not everyone's windows works like this

In this What's in my Raycast, @hugorcd shows how he tests MCPs, runs automations every morning, dictates in French and gets English, and asks Raycast AI to build his own extensions. A must watch! youtu.be/GpsbbaQvm-I

Another week, another round of improvements: 📁 File Search: up to 6× faster results 🧩 Extensions: installs and updates about 4× faster 🧠 Startup: about 20% less memory 📜 Scrolling: smoother than ever 📈 ...and over 40 fixes 👉 raycast.com/changelog

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Use the Send Element to AI command to turn any text or image on your screen into context. Just ask: “What does this error mean?” “Explain this chart.” “Give me three alternatives to this.” I use it with a double-tap of the right ⌥ key.

🥖 The New Standard is coming to Paris! October 29th from 6-10pm. Discussion panel: - @thomaspaulmann from Raycast - @artman from @linear - ​Théo Carrive from @MistralAI Spots are limited. RSVP here → luma.com/4pn0klwq

for the new Auto model in @raycast I came up with a spider/radar chart to allow users to compare the 3 preferences we offer: lightweight, balanced, and flagship. it's a tradeoff between speed, cost, and intelligence. it felt natural and fun to present the capabilities this way. wdyt?

Second round of performance improvements is out: 🧠 Launcher: up to 35% less idle memory 📁 File Search: up to 80% less memory and CPU ⚡ AI requests: fewer credits, faster local models Plus a few more goodies: 🎯 Send Element to AI 🐞 30+ fixes 👉 raycast.com/changelog

I fixed something that was really bothering me in @raycast where deleting a hotkey from Root Search looked flickery, quickly flashing a few states in a row whilst the action panel closed. Much more solid now! Will be out in this week's release. Before/After screen recordings:

A good case study in how, no matter how much you test, some users will have setups you never covered. The only way to get everything about Apple Shortcuts (icons, whether they take input) is Apple Events, and fetching them one shortcut at a time cost ~60ms per shortcut. @stephenrobles has 2400 shortcuts. At 60ms each that's 144s, past our 120s timeout, so he saw nothing. Batching plus cheaper icon conversion got us to ~6ms per shortcut, and ~1ms once icons are cached.

As part of this week's release of @raycast I shipped a bunch of improvements related to colour contrast adjustments. Let's look at the challenges Raycast faces and some examples of how we tackle them…

Our first What's in my Raycast in V2 is out! @ryannystrom had a chat with @peduarte to showcase his setup and learn some tips along the way. Check it out on YouTube: youtu.be/k6WRf1S9z4M

This week’s update is live: 💾 Lower memory usage 🤖 New Auto model stretches your credits further 📊 Track Claude + ChatGPT usage ⌨️ No more dropped keystrokes after hotkeys 🐞 50 more fixes More performance and memory gains soon. Changelog: raycast.com/changelog