Butcher Block

Apps you already use, taken apart.

Pick a small thing you have used a hundred times — the search box that pops up when you press a couple of keys. It is here on this page, working. Flip on the X-ray and every piece of it gets a name: what it does, what it does when you type nothing, which keys move it. Tick the pieces you want, and copy out a list of instructions you can paste into whatever AI tool you build with.

Step 1
Try it
Use the real thing, right here. Keyboard and all.
Step 2
Look inside
Flip on the X-ray. Every piece gets a name and a reason.
Step 3
Take it with you
Untick what you do not want. Copy the rest as instructions.

That button is the first cut. It is real — press it.

From Linear

Command bar

One shortcut, one box, everything a keystroke away. The pattern Linear made famous, taken apart into 19 pieces.

StateEdge casesMotionKeyboardAccessibilityCopyPerformance

19 bones$4 measured2 dialects

There is one cut here so far, and that is on purpose. The X-ray, the ticking and the copy-out had to be right first, because every cut after this one is built the same way — get it wrong once and you get it wrong nine more times. Want a particular app taken apart next? Say so on the board.