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-title: Bumblebee
+title: Built a browser session script synthesizer
 date: 2025-04-02
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-One year at trading firm—brittle ETL jobs, scripts max out CPUs, €0.4 mil/month
-cloud costs. Budget cuts make hardware bailouts no longer viable. Asked to
-restart stalling servers.
+One year at trading firm. Webscraper jobs are giving too many problems. Old
+scripts are prone to failure, new scripts take too long to write.
 
-2025-02: Built Bumblebee to record browser sessions and synthesize scripts.
+2025-02: Built Bumblebee, a C# WinForms application, to record browser sessions
+and automate the synthesis of scripts.
 
 <video style="max-width:100%; margin-bottom: 10px" controls="" poster="poster.png">
   <source src="bee.mp4" type="video/mp4">
 </video>
 
-Stack: C# WinForms, WebView2 (Edge), Scintilla.NET editor.
+Hosted WebView2 (Edge) in the WinForms application to render web content.
 
-Data flow: injected JS hooks + browser + editor → events → code → optimizer
-→ editor. 
+Intercepted events by injecting JS hooks to web pages (client-side events) and
+listening to WebView events (internal browser events). Converted intercepted
+events to Selenium code by sending through if-else statements. Crude—no time
+for something better.
 
-Two linear lists store events and code. Mid-session manual edits desync lists,
-block optimizer. ASTs are overkill. As a workaround, only edit scripts at the
-end of recording.
+Implemented a basic optimizer to squash event sequences into single commands
+(e.g., calendar clicks → text input), use heuristics to improve DOM addressing
+(xpath, id, element).
 
-2025-03: First iteration shipped. Optimizer squashes event sequences into
-single commands (e.g., calendar clicks → text input). Better DOM addressing
-(xpath, id, element) using heuristics. Began work on key optimization: bypass
-browser, grab data file directly when possible.
+Integrated Scintilla.NET editor to allow user more control over the generated
+script.
 
-2025-04: Abandoned project—left the firm.
+Events and code are stored in two linear lists. Mid-session manual edits desync
+the lists, block the optimizer. ASTs are overkill for now. As a workaround,
+only edit scripts at the end of recording.
+
+2025-03: Shipped the first iteration. Well-received by colleagues. 
+
+CPUs already saturated. Systems stalling. Began work on key optimization:
+bypass the browser, grab data files directly when possible.
+
+2025-04: Abandoned project. Left the firm.