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Product blog
Product updates, field guides, and field notes—each with links to docs and the hub where relevant. High-level milestones also appear on the changelog.
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ReadField guide · May 23, 2026
When patches compound, rebuild: the queue and worker overhaul
The real story of a compounding-patch trap, the decision to rebuild the approach, and the lesson about when patching becomes the problem.
- When patches compound, rebuild
- Per-job worker isolation
- One canonical queue across all tools
NSS Background Remover
ReadProduct highlight · May 21, 2026
NSS Background Remover: AI-powered, in-browser background removal — free forever, no signup
A launch article on why NSS Background Remover exists, how in-browser AI changes the privacy equation, and what straight-alpha export means for professional design workflows.
- On-device AI
- True straight-alpha PNG
- Brush edge refinement
NSS Background Remover
ReadField guide · May 21, 2026
Straight alpha vs premultiplied alpha: the export detail that breaks other tools
The single most common reason a free cutout looks wrong in professional software, explained with the actual math and what we do differently.
- The black-halo problem
- alpha = round(mask × 255)
- RGB of transparent pixels preserved
NSS Background Remover
ReadField guide · May 20, 2026
How in-browser background removal works, end to end
For developers wondering whether client-side ML is viable for a real tool: the actual stages, in order, with the real runtime and the real export detail.
- Transformers.js runtime
- Float32 alpha mask, not a binary cutout
- Lab-space edge decontamination
NSS Background Remover
ReadField guide · May 19, 2026
Why our background remover never uploads your image — and what that protects
Privacy that is structural rather than a policy promise: how fully client-side inference removes the server from the picture, and the engineering bill we paid for it.
- No backend, no upload
- Verifiable in the network tab
- Works offline after first load
NSS Background Remover