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My name is Marcin Wichary (he/him). I’ve worked as a UX designer, typographer, front-end person, and manager at Google, Medium, and Figma. I’ve also written a book about keyboards and typing, gave talks, and published essays about design, typography, and technology.

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“Nothing at all like the bloated app that Dropbox’s Mac client has grown into”

John Gruber at Daring Fireball penned a short eulogy for Maestral:

As of today Maestral continues to work just fine. I don’t know when these certificates are expiring. And I don’t know what I’m going to do when they do.

Dropbox enshittified its app – my friend joked once that Dropbox is a rare example of a company that pivoted away from a product-market fit – and it seems Apple’s API changes didn’t really help, either.

Maestral stepped in to help restore the minimalistic, functional core of Dropbox – I believe Doctorow terms this “disenshittification” – but it was helmed by one person, Sam Schott, who has every right to move on to other things.