Notes from the workshop
What an extension can actually reach, why a pile of saves stops being findable, and what a shelf of small tools is for.
How to find deleted videos in a YouTube playlist, including the ones YouTube hides
A playlist of 400 plays 380, and the page only says some videos are hidden. Here is how to put them back on screen, find out what they were, and clear them out of every list at once.
YouTube · Playlists · Local-first · 8 min read
How to delete all your Watch Later videos on YouTube, and why there is no button for it
YouTube removes Watch Later videos one at a time, or clears only the ones you have already watched. Here is what is left for the backlog you have not: by hand, by script, or sorted into piles and cleared in batches you can undo.
YouTube · Watch Later · Local-first · 8 min read
How to tell what a Chrome extension can actually do
The install dialog is a summary, not a spec. Here is how to read an extension's real reach — its permissions, its host list, and whether the network tab agrees with the marketing.
Extensions · Privacy · 8 min read
Why RedNote saves stop being findable, and what fixes it
1,876 saved posts and zero albums is not laziness. It is what happens when the only filing tool moves one post at a time, and nothing searches the pile.
RedNote · Local-first · Search · 7 min read
What Deft Foundry is, and what it deliberately is not
A shelf of small browser tools that share one account and one billing surface — so a tool that only needs to be small does not also have to become a company.
Extensions · Local-first · 5 min read