Discovered: Jan 23, 2025 09:51 Me:: I find browser extension development problematic because they require a lot of implicit knowledge, there’s no simple 1 file hello world for example! 2023:: Geoffrey Litt:: For your next side project, make a browser extension

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Software should be a malleable medium, where anyone can edit their tools to better fit their personal needs. The laws of physics aren’t relevant here; all we need is to find ways to architect systems in such a way that they can be tweaked at runtime, and give everyone the tools to do so.

Beyond the pragmatic efficiency benefits of building a browser extension, I would argue that it’s simply more fun to engage with the digital world in a read-write way, to see a problem and actually consider it fixable by tweaking from the outside.

So, if you’re a programmer: the next time you come across an annoying problem on a web app frontend, maybe consider writing a browser extension to make it better, and then share it so that other people can benefit too.`

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