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I know you’d rather see it native but if you’re open to sponsor its development, I could make a custom addon for that.

This is a good read for JS developers. TL;DR: they’re not the same thing. Only sometimes they match (e.g. `id`) but often they don’t. Something fun: JSX does not use attributes, ev…

https://github.com/refined-github/refined-github I never intended it to be a side project, I just liked the extension and started contributing heavily to it, to the point where I b…

The fun part is that they completely botched an experience that iOS can delivery natively. I built a mini app to extract the HSL stream from a URL and have iOS play it. It usually …

Only pre-existing MV2 extensions can be updated. New extensions have had to be MV3 for exactly 12 months already: since January 17th 2022.

Look into chrome.storage.session, they created it explicitly to allow in-memory storage for those scenarios. Not as easy as just setting a property, but good enough.

> Please do not treat them this way. They do not grant access to your account. Can you expand on that? Once I have such code, what’s stopping me from “stealing” the account?

Italy has SPID. It’s a federated login system based on your fiscal code (every Italian has one). You can use it to log into any government service and potentially banks and such. I…

I don’t think it's actually a net benefit. Adding the wrong value degrades the experience. I've seen links marked with `role=button` for no reason and generally roles added when on…

Digital menus aren't bad, but very few can implement them effectively. I do like having access to the menu for the whole dinner though and not have to wait for the waiter, ever. In…

If this becomes illegal, it will pretty much mark the death of free/open ML and its sets. If you can't train on data before asking for permission, the data set becomes sparse. Thje…

Back when npm didn’t have any “similar name” restrictions I did the same for some popular packages. My redirects also helped me a couple of times as I wonder whether a package name…

Yeah but… money. You can’t pay rent with smiles. Accepting donations would probably mean having to work less at their main job. Or they could re-donate it. There are people willing…

JSX requires a build though, it's easier to enforce syntax when a missing character will just work while writing it . There are no JSX errors at runtime for this reason.

It's kind of weird to work for free though, isn't it? Sure it's something we like doing, but I really see no reason to reject free money. For uBlock this free money would be a fair…

GitHub Sponsors is a technical solution, but I still need to handle the legal side of the equation.

> And some donated more than others That's unrelated to donations. One can accept donations without putting their soul on sale. As an extension developer I get offers for buying my…

Think of TypeScript as writing JavaScript with inline tests: It takes longer but it produces "safer" code (with fewer bugs) Is it worth learning it? I'm sure type-less job offers w…

For those who don’t understand what it’s doing (like me at first): You first have to host these index.html and sw.js on a regular server (or use the URL in the readme) and then thi…

It's interesting that you mention Chrome’s silliness when I find Firefox’ dev tools to be severely lacking, especially for WebExtensions. Examples include: - complete inability to …

Async iterables are async generators. They call .next() on the iterable, that returns a promise, the promise resolves with either a new item to loop with, or with `done`, which wil…

Your words: > One might be tempted to use the thenable interface (don’t!): The code that followed was fine and it had no race condition. > Seems like it would work, but it actually…

> the pattern of awaiting in an async parallel loop in general reduces to what I wrote, does it not? No. async item => {await item()} // Promise item => item() // Promise > In gene…