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A story of a Figma bug that wasn't a bug at all (2021)

Quality: 8/10 Relevance: 7/10

Summary

A deep-dive into a Figma Shift+2 bug that revealed it wasn't a bug but a legacy keyboard behavior linked to Num Lock and arrow-key layouts dating back to IBM keyboards. The piece weaves hardware history with software UX, showing how historical decisions can surface as modern UI quirks. It also highlights how browser disambiguation resolved the issue.

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