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babycat

Sep 20

Test Streaming Markdown for Transient Headings and Half-Written Links

#a11y #javascript #webdev #ai

11 min read

babycat

Sep 19

An Empty Model Handshake Needs a Recoverable Error, Not a Disabled Composer

#a11y #javascript #webdev #ai

7 min read

babycat

Sep 18

Build an Accessible Waiting-for-Tokens Control With Stall Recovery

#a11y #javascript #webdev #ai

9 min read

babycat

Sep 17

Streaming Chat Needs In-Place Completion, Not a Remount That Drops Focus

#javascript #a11y #webdev #ai

8 min read

babycat

Sep 16

Cancel Mid-Stream Needs an Abort Owner, Not a Grey Stop Button

#a11y #javascript #webdev #ai

9 min read

babycat

Sep 15

My Screen Reader Read Three Sentences Behind: Debugging a Live-Region Backlog in Streaming Chat

#a11y #webdev #javascript #ai

8 min read

babycat

Sep 13

Chat File Consent Needs a Request Snapshot, Not a Sticky Include Checkbox

#a11y #javascript #react #webdev

7 min read

babycat

Sep 12

Remote Chat Failover Needs a Tab-Stop Origin Banner, Not a Skeleton Overlay

#a11y #javascript #react #ai

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9 min read

babycat

Sep 11

Stream Disconnect Needs an Announced Retry, Not a Frozen Cursor

#a11y #javascript #ai #webdev

9 min read

babycat

Sep 10

Streaming Agents Need a Tool-Call Focus Lock, Not a Toast Over the Composer

#a11y #javascript #webdev #ai

8 min read

babycat

Sep 10

Streaming Chat Needs a Content-Type Guard, Not Infinite aria-busy

#a11y #javascript #webdev #ai

9 min read

babycat

Sep 9

Agent Tool Prompts Need a Blocking Dialog, Not a Chip You Never Tab To

#a11y #javascript #ai #webdev

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8 min read

babycat

Sep 8

The Stop Button Lied: Debugging a Cancelled Stream That Never Released the Composer

#a11y #javascript #react #ai

9 min read

babycat

Sep 8

Stream Cancel Needs a Dead Reader, Not a Hidden Spinner

#a11y #javascript #ai #webdev

8 min read

babycat

Sep 6

Streaming Markdown Needs a Settled Document, Not a Live Heading Tree

#a11y #javascript #react #ai

8 min read

babycat

Sep 5

Chat Retry Needs a Retired Turn, Not a Second Stop Button

#javascript #a11y #ai #webdev

10 min read

babycat

Sep 4

Agent Clarifying Questions Need a Focus Handoff, Not a Noisier Live Region

#a11y #javascript #ai #webdev

8 min read

babycat

Sep 4

Fix Silent 30s AI Stream Timeouts with a Client Watchdog

#aistreaming #debugging #proxytimeout #a11y

5 min read

babycat

Sep 4

Streaming AI Watermarks Change Mid-Response—Test the Announcement Before You Ship It

#ai #a11y #webdev #frontend

4 min read

babycat

Sep 4

Streaming Tool Calls Need a Working State, Not a Forever Spinner

#a11y #javascript #webdev #ai

8 min read

babycat

Sep 4

The Free Server Saw My API Key: A Client-Side Redaction Layer for AI Prompts

#privacy #ai #webdev #javascript

4 min read

babycat

Sep 4

A Static Watchdog Page Tells You When a Free Model Endpoint Drops Streaming—Before Your UI Learns the Hard Way

#a11y #javascript #webdev #ai

5 min read

babycat

Sep 3

The Retry Keystroke Failed After Cancel: A Dead AbortSignal Retrospective

#a11y #javascript #webdev #ai

8 min read

babycat

Sep 3

Streaming Chat Needs a Finish Line, Not Mid-Answer Action Buttons

#a11y #javascript #webdev #ai

12 min read

babycat

Sep 2

The AI "Memory" Was Fine: A Frontend Context Poisoning Debugging Retrospective

#ai #webdev #a11y #javascript

5 min read

babycat

Aug 31

Give Screen Reader Users a Buffer: A Pausable AI Stream Chat on a Free Server

#a11y #ai #react #streaming

6 min read

babycat

Aug 30

The Stream Closed Silently After a Long Conversation: A Debugging Retrospective

#ai #a11y #webdev #debugging

5 min read

babycat

Aug 29

The Token Meter Hit 100% and the Server Disagreed: A Usage-Accounting Retrospective

#ai #webdev #debugging #a11y

6 min read

babycat

Aug 28

The Second Turn Forgot the First: A Payload Debugging Retrospective

#ai #debugging #webdev #opensource

5 min read

babycat

Aug 26

When the Free Model Says 429: An Accessible Fallback Pipeline for AI Chat

#a11y #webdev #ai

4 min read

babycat

Aug 22

JSON.parse Lied to Me: Incremental Parsing for Half-Arrived AI Responses

#javascript #webdev #ai #a11y

5 min read

babycat

Aug 21

The First Request Always Failed: Debugging Cold Starts on a Free-Tier AI Server

#webdev #ai #a11y #performance

6 min read

babycat

Aug 20

Streaming Tokens Need a Frame Budget: Keeping Chat Input Responsive at 60 FPS

#performance #a11y #webdev #ai

5 min read

babycat

Aug 19

localhost Was Fine, Production Wasn't: A CORS Debugging Retrospective for a Deployed AI Chat Widget

#webdev #ai #a11y #javascript

5 min read

babycat

Aug 19

A 30M-Token Free Tier Needs a Token Ledger, Not Just a Budget Bar

#ai #webdev #debugging #a11y

6 min read

babycat

Aug 18

Don't Burn Free Tokens Twice: Cache Streaming Chat Responses in a Service Worker

#webdev #javascript #ai #tutorial

5 min read

babycat

Aug 18

A Free Model Returned Markdown That NVDA Read as One Endless Sentence: Normalizing LLM Output Before It Reaches the Live Region

#a11y #ai #javascript #frontend

5 min read

babycat

Aug 17

The Network Tab Said 200, but the Streaming Chat Never Finished: A Response-Frame Debugging Retrospective

#webdev #ai #a11y #javascript

5 min read

babycat

Aug 17

A Free Token Pool Won't Reveal Dropped Fields; a Request Fingerprint Harness Will

#ai #webdev #javascript #debugging

4 min read

babycat

Aug 16

Free AI Quotas Break Silently When Your Proxy Swallows Retry-After

#ai #webdev #a11y #javascript

4 min read

babycat

Aug 16

AI Agent Tool Calls Need an Accessible Approval Gate, Not Just a Confirmation Dialog

#a11y #ai #javascript #webdev

5 min read

babycat

Aug 16

A Free Model Endpoint Loses Its Value When a Page Refresh Destroys the Chat

#a11y #javascript #ai #webdev

5 min read

babycat

Aug 15

A Free Token Pool Still Needs a Screen-Reader-Visible Budget Boundary

#a11y #ai #javascript #webdev

5 min read

babycat

Aug 15

When the Free Token Bucket Is Empty, Tell the User Before They Ask

#a11y #ai #webdev #javascript

5 min read

babycat

Aug 15

A Watermark Badge Is Not an Accessible Audit Trail for Streaming Output

#ai #a11y #frontend #javascript

5 min read

babycat

Aug 14

Keep Streaming, Abort, and Announcements Intact When You Move a Free Model Behind Your Own Server

#a11y #ai #javascript #webdev

4 min read

babycat

Aug 14

An Accessible Chat UI Needs a Batch Policy, Not Just a Free Token Endpoint

#a11y #ai #javascript #webdev

5 min read

babycat

Aug 14

Accessible Streaming Probe: Fail on Purpose Before Swapping Models

#a11y #webdev #javascript #ai

6 min read

babycat

Aug 14

Abort-Forwarding Proxy for a Free Model Endpoint: Stop Losing Tokens After the User Leaves

#ai #javascript #serverless #webdev

5 min read

babycat

Aug 14

Build a Keyboard-Operable Stream Tester and Deploy It on a Free Server

#a11y #javascript #ai #frontend

5 min read

babycat

Aug 13

Probe a Free Model Endpoint for Streaming, Abort, and Retry Before You Build on It

#ai #webdev #a11y #javascript

4 min read

babycat

Aug 13

An Accessible Queue for Streaming Prompts Needs More Than a Per-Request Spinner

#a11y #javascript #ai #webdev

6 min read

babycat

Aug 10

Streaming Errors Need an Announcement Policy, Not Just a Retry Button

#a11y #webdev #ai #testing

6 min read

babycat

Aug 7

Build an Accessible Tool-Call Consent Gate for Streaming Agents

#a11y #webdev #react #ai

5 min read

babycat

Aug 6

Build an Accessible Tool-Approval Dialog With Focus Recovery and a Real Model Behind It

#a11y #webdev #ai #javascript

5 min read

babycat

Aug 5

Cancel, Retry, Announce: A Typed State Machine for Accessible Streaming Chat

#a11y #webdev #javascript #ai

7 min read

babycat

Aug 5

Test Your Streaming Chat UI's Cancel and Retry Against a Real Endpoint, Not a setTimeout

#a11y #javascript #ux #ai

6 min read

babycat

Aug 4

Mock Streams Pass, Real Streams Fail: Test Your Accessible Streaming UI Against a Real Model

#a11y #webdev #javascript #ai

7 min read

babycat

Jul 31

Streaming Chat Needs a Testable State Machine, Not Just a Stop Button

#a11y #webdev #ai #javascript

7 min read

babycat

Jul 31

Streaming Chat Needs Cancel and Retry States, Not Just a Spinner

#a11y #webdev #javascript #ai

6 min read