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Small, sharp experiments that fed the bigger products

Timeline: 2023 — present
Availability: Not publicly reachable
Repositories: 15
Role: Design, architecture and implementation
Summary: The long tail — browser extensions, CSS studies, analytics filters, mock servers, sync bridges and form builders. Individually small; collectively the reason the larger products have fewer surprises in them.

Why keep them

Every one of these started as a problem inside a bigger product that deserved to be isolated: how to detect an ad blocker without lying to the user, how to draw a progress bar with no JavaScript, how to make heatmap rendering fast enough to feel instant, how to gate a price without leaking it to the client.

Solving them in isolation is faster than solving them inside a large application, and the answer usually gets folded back in.