Glad to know that's what it's called! For avoidance of any doubt I'm not trying to claim I 'discovered' any of this - just wanted to share some useful learnings :D
When you independently discover commonly used techniques (often without even realizing it), it's usually a good sign you're working on and thinking about cool stuff! Eventually one of those ideas will be entirely novel (you've probably already had many of them), and that's how scientific progress is made.
