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Mostly notes from real work, plus the projects I keep coming back to.
Articlejournal / 09-the-extension-pivot
The extension pivot changed the whole shape of the project
Once I started looking at the extension commits closely, it stopped feeling like “another way to launch the tool” and started feeling like a different phase of the product. The bookmarklet and the extension…
Articlejournal / 08-the-bookmarklet-hit-a-wall
The bookmarklet was useful, but it was also hitting a wall
This was one of those moments where the main limitation was not the audit logic. It was how the tool reached the page at all. I still think the bookmarklet was a good place…
Articlejournal / a11y-cat-19-history-baselines-and-local-state
A11Y-Cat: History, baselines, and local workflow state made this feel like a real product
This is where the project starts moving from “run a scan now” toward “use the tool as part of an ongoing review process.” There is a stage in browser tooling where one-off scans stop…
Articlejournal / 05-my-first-ai-phase-was-still-experimental
My first AI phase was still very experimental
I can see the enthusiasm in this stage, but I can also see that I had not settled the trust story yet. The first AI phase in this repo lands fast. On February 16…
Articlejournal / 04-why-i-spent-so-much-time-on-demos
Why I spent so much time on demos this early
At first glance it looks like I got distracted by GIFs. Looking back, I think I was trying to make the tool legible. February 16 is one of the strangest-looking days in the repo…
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journal / a11y-cat-18-why-provenance-started-mattering
A11Y-Cat: I ended up needing provenance, not just findings
At some point the output itself was no longer enough. I needed the tool to say where a result came from and how it had been shaped. Once A11Y Cat had multiple detection sources…