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tschiller
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About tschiller
PixieBrix is a browser extension anyone can use to customize websites and SaaS to fit the way they work. (Think userscripts, but lego blocks)
https://toddschiller.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/tschiller/
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Yep! We're also experimenting with small models to filter out sections that are irrelevant for the agent given its current goal/task
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Show HN: Agent-browser-shield – free extension to protect AI agents on the web
I've been experimenting with Claude Code, ChatGPT Agent, and OpenClaw to perform more open-ended tasks for me online. A big blocker I've hit on shopping and research tasks is the a…
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Comment #32309178
PixieBrix | REMOTE | https://www.pixiebrix.com What if you could customize any web app to provide the perfect user experience? Open positions (learn more at https://careers.pixiebr…
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Comment #31589644
PixieBrix | REMOTE | https://www.pixiebrix.com What if you could customize any web app to provide the perfect user experience? Make an impact on a small, growing, team that's open-…
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Comment #29411633
PixieBrix | REMOTE | https://www.pixiebrix.com Our mission is to give everyone the power to customize their technology to have the perfect UX. Our first product is a low-code brows…
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Comment #29070906
PixieBrix | REMOTE | https://www.pixiebrix.com Our mission is to give everyone the power to customize their technology to have the perfect UX. Our first product is a low-code brows…
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Comment #28044937
PixieBrix | REMOTE | https://www.pixiebrix.com Our mission is to make it possible for everyone to customize the web to fit the way they work. (Think browser extensions and userscri…
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Comment #27424636
Author of the blog post here! If you comment with corrections/milestones I missed, I'll try to incorporate them I'll also be attempting to update the augmented browsing/browser ext…
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Comment #27424541
That's a very cool bit of history! Adding it to my list of references/updates to make to the blog post
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Comment #27406563
Thanks for the link! Adding this to the list of corrections I need to make to the Medium post
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Comment #27405598
According to the spec, Bookmarklets should actually be exempt from a site's CSP. The reason is that the user's preferences should take precedence over a site's preferences There's …
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Comment #27405560
Yep, the first style manager extension was released in 2005 (Stylish). Style manager extensions are a much more frictionless way to manage and share styles The WebExtensions API ha…
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Comment #27404811
Not an expert on this part, but I'd imagine that problem isn't having an API, it's more that running native executables is the problem if you can't sandbox them or limit their reso…
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Comment #27404651
Java falls under plug-ins. The Java plug-in was released in 1998. Flash was released in 1996
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Comment #27404605
The safety/stability issue comes from the fact that plug-ins (e.g., NPAPI) are native executables Browsers started dropping support for plug-ins around 2015. However, plug-ins actu…
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Comment #27404564
The timeline of browser extensibility is quite fascinating. There's really not a single place that covers all of it, so I decided to research my own timeline/history: - Consumer we…
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Comment #27358041
PixieBrix | REMOTE | https://www.pixiebrix.com Our mission is to give everyone the ability to customize the websites they use to have the perfect UX. (Think browser extensions / us…
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Comment #26363761
Their site has a lot of great content and research, but it's spread out across PDFs, many of which are single-page handouts for practitioners. For example, here's their in-depth fr…
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Comment #26357606
Rhetoric is traced back to Mesopotamia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric#History The FrameWorks Institute is just a non-profit that's modernizing the study of rhetoric for mo…
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Comment #26005455
Great question. Our general approach is to look up the devtools browser extension for the framework, and use that as a reference point for determining how to interface with the fra…