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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Easy operations

I had a strict rule for this project: no operational stress . This meant no servers, and no data storage.

The tool was shipped as a purely client-side browser extension, using Twitter’s backend for search. I didn’t have my own user accounts; the extension would just send requests from the user’s browser using their authentication

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