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Dota 2 patch 7.41e rebalanced the hero pool and squished Immortal MMR. A global win rate is measuring a hero that no longer exists. Dota Companion 1.9.0 measures…

A stale row in an agent’s memory cost a 966 KB zip built twice. What memory decay does to a codebase.

Annoying Dino 2.0.0 reached the Chrome Web Store on August 30, 2026: a new motion system, five species, reworked eggs and pterodactyls, volcanoes and meteors, and the same…

Six green gates over three ship-blockers. What the stress battery and three hostile readers found in Plainsight that 55 unit tests, 41 mutants and a real-browser suite did…

A sneak peek at Plainsight: a free, local-only reading-accessibility concept for Chrome, and how it compares to BeeLine Reader, Speechify, and Helperbird.

A dated, sourced comparison of CaptureTools against twenty named Chrome extensions for capture, tabs, highlighting and focus, including where they win.

KH4 Companion is live on addons.mozilla.org. It is the first thing I have ever shipped to Mozilla, and it went out as version 0.2.0 — the same build…

The market and evidence scan behind Haven: an empty extension category, what reviewers complain about, and four features declined on purpose.

A private, local-only wellbeing journal for Chrome: why it has no streaks, why the example week never touches your storage, and who it is for.

Four tools that cut one PDF into several, built for different offices and not planned as a set. How pages get classified, the three ordering traps that cost…

Annoying Dino is going from 1.1.0 to a 2.0, and before any of it is built there is a plan document. The full plan is embedded here. Nothing…

A technical deep dive into how CaptureTools keeps five separate tools isolated—preventing data leaks, message collisions, and runtime conflicts within a single Chrome extension.

Sealshot, Backtrack, Lantern, Tab Ledger and Focus Ledger now ship as one Chrome extension. What merged, what stayed structurally separate, and why the mark became a viewfinder.

Three animated SVG figures for Dota Companion, drawn with an open-source SVG animation skill that came out of a post by Artxolotl_73 in r/claudeskills — and the idea…

Dota Companion 1.9.0 adds an Insights tab, a draft helper, and a status line that says what the data is. It also fixes an ingest default that had…

The failure that shaped this project does not throw. Chrome’s 2D canvas has a maximum side length and, separately, a maximum total area. Ask for a canvas past…

Manifest V3 gives an extension’s service worker about thirty seconds of idle before Chrome reclaims it, and a hard ceiling of five minutes on any single event. A…

The newest Lumenreel Short was built rig-first: a pelvis, a curving spine, an ankle joint that stops the toe digging through the floor, and a render budget where…

The Chrome Web Store publishing cap arrived and took two of my extensions with it, silently. Here is what Google actually documents, what other developers reported, and why…

Seven extension games needed a host. The base64-payload trick I had been using existed only to defeat WordPress. Moving to static hosting deleted the whole problem, and taught…

The back button existed the whole time. It was at 35% opacity and appended to the end of the body, which made it both invisible and the last…

KH4 Companion is packaged at 0.2.0 and its Chrome Web Store listing is in preparation. It is an unofficial fan extension for the wait until Kingdom Hearts IV:…

Lumenreel · Prism Crash is a slot machine for Chrome in which the only thing you can stake is time. It is packaged at 0.8.0 and the store…

VEILFALL and Underglory both cleared Chrome Web Store review this week. They are the sixteenth and seventeenth DHSeaDev extensions on the store, they were built in the same…

VEILFALL is finished enough to have a store listing, so this week was asset week: icons, promo tiles, five screenshots, a listing document, four films. I expected it…