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The tab tax: why I stopped alt-tabbing out of my editor to test an API

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Last week I caught myself doing the same loop for the fourth time in an hour: write a handler in the editor, alt-tab to the browser, wait for the Postman tab to focus, re-send the request I ran ten minutes ago, read the response, alt-tab back, forget what I was about to type, re-read the last three…

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