Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software

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Productivity Power Tools

#Regular Expressions #Programming Tools #Development 356 social mentions

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Hypothes.is

I honestly can't imagine not using extensions. I'm 39 and have been on the web since Netscape etc in the early 90s and I honestly care more about the extensions than I do anything the browser actually does. Like, if there were no extensions I don't think I'd care at all if I used Firefox, Chrome, Opera, etc. But Chrome and Firefox have this massive, massive ecosystem of productitivy improving extensions. I'll give an example since I'm tooting so loudly about this, my job entails a lot of R&D and distributing knowledge to other engineers in a concise manner. I use an app called hypothesis- https://web.hypothes.is/ which is very popular in research groups. What it does is it lets me essentially annotate websites. So for instance I have an application with a front end UI, instead of writing readmes with no interaction to the front end UI I can actually annotate each page like a how-to, or a help doc. Another one is Dark Reader that makes every single website dark mode.. Ublock I can't even remember a time of my life not using to block ads.. It's amazing for training situations. https://web.hypothes.is/.

#Bookmark Manager #Bookmarks #Productivity 45 social mentions

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Infinite Craft

An interesting one I made recently is related to a game published a couple of days ago here in HN called "infinite craft" https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/ The game does not have any save mechanism, so I made a bookmarklet that loads and autosaves to localStorage ``` javascript:(function(){.

#Games #Online Games #Puzzle Games 3 social mentions