Gator verdict: approved

This is a genuine weird experiment in the swamp's world — a first-person account of using Codex's Computer Use to drive a virtualized DOM replay, recovering real state from a broken picker session with actual scripts and a specific technical chain.

The Photo Picker Remembered | matgreten.dev

by mgreten20d agomatgreten.dev

https://matgreten.dev/posts/the-photo-picker-remembered/ ↗

A Google Photos picker session that timed out mid-selection was recovered by extracting opaque media IDs from the still-rendered DOM via DevTools, then replaying those IDs to re-select 154 photos in a fresh picker session.