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Restyle and reskin webpages with a powerful set of developer tools.

This project uses AI

Used OpenAI Codex for coding and debugging

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LockIn Week 1

LockIn was definitely huge motivation for me to work on my projects. I probably wouldn’t have spent a single hour on this project if it wasn’t for the sidequest.

Since the last ship, I released versions v0.3.5 to v0.3.8, bringing some MUCH needed QOL changes. Mainly providing support for something that I should have provided a long time ago: multiple scripts running on the same page.

Previously, two scripts matching the same webpage would clash as although the extension would run both scripts, but it would only load one of the scripts in the sidepanel, meaning you’d have to switch to a different tab to edit the other one. Now there is just a nice dropdown for easy switching.

So this is the sort of feature I should have implemented ages ago. Lesson is basically that I need to think through my features more thoroughly and get my priorities straight.

Also, you can export scripts into Tampermonkey format and CSS stylesheet format now! So there is partial support for both Tampermonkey and Stylus now.

I’m also messing around with posting stuff to websites like dev.to to share the project. The extension should be polished enough by now, so hopefully I will have the courage to post on Reddit soon :)

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Released v0.3.8 today. Just some polish and QOL features.

  • Script minification (using terser and css-tree) to minify exported scripts
  • Disable all grants button: prevents all scripts from using grants temporarily (basically preventing any scripts from running on page load, as that’s the only grant)
  • Export tool UI polish. There’s only a small difference but I think it makes the UI clearer.
  • More internal refactors, again. I have to do this often as AI writes code pretty quickly, but I think that’s just a byproduct of faster development. If I wrote everything by hand, I would still have to do refactors anyway, but instead I would just put them off for eternity.
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I released v0.3.7, making some convenient API changes, bug fixes, and most importantly, finally getting export to Tampermonkey to work. The current setup is to get Tampermonkey to load the pp library from a url hosted on the demo page for my extension.

The pp library is built into JS via a script which I run manually every time I release a version, and it literally just injects globals into the script. The setup is mildly cursed but I can’t think of anything better right now. Surely this won’t just remain in the codebase forever, just like all my other temporary fixes…

Look! I’m running a Page Proxy script in Tampermonkey!

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Painfully updated documentation 😭

This involved manually screenshotting each component and cropping them and filling the unwanted edges in with transparency.

And no, ā€œCapture node screenshotā€ in DevTools does not set the contents behind the node to transparent, so the background is captured inside of the screenshot. And it doesn’t work in an extension’s sidepanel either.

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Did a lot of polish to the website. Also added a nice undo button that pops from the recording stack and selects the element that was selected in the previous stack.

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Finally added support for multiple scripts running on the same tab! Previously, the editor would just load the script that was created earlier, which was really annoying as you would have to navigate to a different tab to edit another script. Now there is just a nice dropdown.

Of course, I also updated the documentation and fixed bugs, as usual.

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Added a feature list to the demo! (which took forever, as usual.) Also made a lot of fixes to the website UI, enforcing consistent margins and padding and whatnot, also cleaning up some of the website code.

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The main feature of this ship is the most important tool of the extension, the record tool! It records your actions done with the select tool so you can easily convert your actions to code, speeding up the userscript creation process by a lot.

I made a demo for the landing page. It took forever, but hopefully it looks cool?

I updated the documentation, it should be much more polished now.

I also fixed a ton of bugs. The browser-specific ones were really annoying. Guess that’s why I have to test every browser.

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I finally have a landing page demo now. It took forever but hopefully it was worth it?

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Recording tool, probably the most important of them all. Allows you to convert actions you would normally do in DevTools into code.

Also reorganized the entire project, splitting many files.

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Lots and lots of polishing and fixes. There’s much more documentation and help links now, so hopefully the product will be a lot easier to use.

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Made a few tweaks to documentation and UI.

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First ship! This ā€œsimpleā€ project ended up taking 40 hours.

Features are limited and the landing page is kinda empty, but I needed to get an initial ship out.

I built a Tampermonkey alternative that can proxy and inject JS and CSS into any website.

The main difference is that there’s a TON of GUI tools plus a nice API to make your life easier. No more copying selectors and managing them; the API can handle all that already.

This is my second attempt at making a website/web-based product. I actually knew what I was doing this time, which is nice.

This project is far from complete, so don’t hesitate to report issues or make suggestions!

orangishcat

I worked on documentation, export tool, demo website, and lots more; mostly polishing and stuff for the past few days.

This was supposed to be an easy project, and now I have 40 hours on it…

Just a few more final tests, and I’ll get a first ship out to get some payout. Features are limited but I don’t have time for everything.

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The extension is mostly ready for a first ship. Also Monaco editor yay!

The website still has a long way to go, though…

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Added this panel that allows you to match elements in many ways

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Eucatastrophe
Eucatastrophe about 2 months ago

yippee

orangishcat

UI implementation is finally done, I can finally begin implementing functionality

Only took nearly 20 hours

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I wanted most of the functionality to be in the website, but CORS just doesn’t work like that. Oh well, I guess I’m developing a Chrome/Firefox extension now (using WXT).

Here’s the design.

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Main app layout implemented and finalized, would look something like this

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Designed the main app in Figma. Progress is slow, but I hope I’ll get better at it.

Designing is actually kinda fun. Previously I made websites by jumping straight into the coding without planning, and the end result was not what I had imagined at all. Using Figma though, this design already looks way better than what I had originally planned, and unlike before, I am actually excited this time to implement this design in code.

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Haven’t written much code yet, but I have created some basic wireframes and components

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