For your next side project, make a browser extension
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For your next side project, make a browser extension
There’s a certain comfort in the realm of infinite possibility. When a project is ongoing, it can be anything. It’s Schrödinger’s1 project — simultaneously perfect and flawed until you actually finish it and put it out into the world. The moment you declare a project “done,” you open it up to criticism, both external and internal. What if it’s not ... See more
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Deliver the Bare Minimum
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My notes from Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham:
The way to create something beautiful is often to make subtle tweaks to something that already exists, or to combine existing ideas in a slightly new way.
There are only two things you have to know about business: build something users love, and make more than you spend. If you get these two ri... See more
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?
I've built exten... See more
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?
I've built exten... See more