Insights on YouTube habits, attention management, and building a healthier relationship with video content.
Building a behavioral tracker for adults made me think seriously about how the same mechanisms work on children. Child Mode is what came out of that thinking.
Last week the alert fired on me four times. Three of those times it was correct. Here's what the alert actually detects, what it misses, and why I still use it despite the false positives.
A meaningful percentage of what YouTube presents as new is old content re-uploaded under a new title. Over 30 days, a recurring share of "new" recommendations in my feed were re-uploads. Here's how detection works.
Gazenest builds a behavioral profile from your watch patterns. It's not a quiz result or an archetype. It's a model of how you actually pay attention, and where that attention drifts.
Screen Time congratulates you for being on your phone less. Gazenest's weekly report tells you something different, and more useful.
I built the first version of sync using browser storage. Then it broke in production in exactly the way I should have predicted. Here's what happened and why PostgreSQL won.