I take no pleasure in reinventing the wheel, but was sufficiently frustrated that Windows Magnifier was so slow to open/close and had usability issues (tried several other ones which had issues too), so I wrote my own in-app magnifier to inspect rendering issues.

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• URL: https://x.com/ocornut/status/2052055084243063121
• Author: Omar 🍋 (@ocornut)
• Posted: 2026-05-06 15:57:12

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I take no pleasure in reinventing the wheel, but was sufficiently frustrated that Windows Magnifier was so slow to open/close and had usability issues (tried several other ones which had issues too), so I wrote my own in-app magnifier to inspect rendering issues.

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