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Web app projects, developer tools, browser-based experiments, interface details, and practical notes from building and testing software.
journal / 11-release-vs-test-extension
This is one of those engineering details that sounds boring until you realise it is protecting the truth of the whole release story. One of the…
journal / a11y-cat-20-diagnostics-and-boundaries
This is one of the clearest places where the repo stopped treating failure handling as an afterthought. A lot of browser tools quietly act embarrassed when…
journal / 09-the-extension-pivot
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…
journal / 08-the-bookmarklet-hit-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…
journal / a11y-cat-19-history-baselines-and-local-state
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…
journal / 05-my-first-ai-phase-was-still-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…
journal / 04-why-i-spent-so-much-time-on-demos
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…
journal / a11y-cat-18-why-provenance-started-mattering
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…
journal / a11y-cat-17-why-i-split-issue-types
This was one of the more important mindset changes in the whole repo, and it was not really about UI labels. It was about honesty. For…
journal / a11y-cat-15-contrast-and-honesty
I thought this would be one of the simpler checks. It really was not. Contrast keeps showing up in A11Y Cat’s history because it is one…