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For your next side project, make a browser extension

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Reflections on the benefits of tweaking an existing app, instead of starting from scratch.

January 2023 For your next side project, make a browser extension Reflections on the benefits of tweaking an existing app, instead of starting from scratch. In a previous post I've written about why browser extensions are an amazing platform for customizing existing software. Because the browser DOM can be hacked in open-ended ways, it's possible to build extensions that modify the behavior of an app in ways that the original creators never anticipated or intended to support. Today I'll make that point more concrete by sharing the story of a side project I made. Over the past couple years, I b

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