Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software

If you know to look, you can feel the difference between software crafted with care for its users and systems of vacuous tradition that just happen to be good at producing the vapid fodder of convenience.

People think of browser extensions as brittle: a site changes its CSS selectors, and bam the extension breaks.

But I think the opposite: it's wild how *resilient* browser extensions often are!

Consider the context: I can extend any aspect of a webapp UI, with zero support or foresight by the original app devs... and it actually works?

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Instead of being a passive consumer of the web, I begin to feel as though the internet is molding itself around my intentions, transforming from a distraction machine into a precision instrument for creativity.

But I also think that something more profound is happening here. Instead of being a passive consumer of the web, I begin to feel as though the internet is molding itself around my intentions, transforming from a distraction machine into a precision instrument for creativity.