OLOlamilekan Lamidiinfreecodecamp.org·6d ago · 13 min readHow to Turn Performance Audits into AI Fix Prompts with a DevTools ExtensionPerformance tools are good at showing you what's slow. They can tell you that your Largest Contentful Paint is 4.2 seconds, your JavaScript bundle is too large, or an image below the fold is loading t00
GWGilles Winstowtab.hashnode.dev·Jun 21 · 6 min readI built a Chrome tab manager that cannot make a network requestIn 2021 the Great Suspender — a beloved tab-suspending extension with millions of users — was quietly sold to a new owner, who shipped an update that turned it into adware/malware. Google eventually p00
MTMarut The Mightyindev-research-notes.hashnode.dev·Jun 20 · 4 min readBuilding a Dev Workflow Around Tab Sessions + Clipboard HistoryContext Switching Is Quietly Killing Your Productivity as a Solo Developer One of the biggest productivity drains I face as a solo developer isn't writing code. It's losing context. You're deep into a00
SJShola Jegedeinfreecodecamp.org·Jun 19 · 90 min readHow to Build an AI-Powered, Local-First Chrome Extension That Turns Your Browsing History into an Intent MapYour browser remembers every page you've ever opened, but it has no idea why you opened any of them. You might spend three days comparing laptops across a dozen tabs, get distracted, come back a week 00
MTMarut The Mightyindev-research-notes.hashnode.dev·Jun 19 · 6 min readBuilding a Persistent Research Stack in Chrome (Tabs + Clipboard)If you're a developer, writer, founder, or anyone who spends a lot of time researching online, you've probably run into this problem before. You start with a simple task. A few Google searches later, 00
VXVin Xuincastreader-blog.hashnode.dev·Jun 16 · 8 min readHow I Built a Chrome Extension That Reads AND Explains Any Web PageI kept losing the plot. Not in life — in articles. I'd open a 3,000-word essay, read two paragraphs, and somewhere around paragraph three my eyes were still moving but nothing was landing. Tab closed.10
HKHammad Khaninhammad-khan.hashnode.dev·Jun 10 · 9 min readBuilding a Chrome Extension That Bridges Three SaaS ToolsBuilding a Chrome Extension That Bridges Three SaaS Tools Chrome extensions live in a strange place. They're not quite apps. They're not quite scripts. They run in a browser context, talk to a backend00
RSRanjeet Singhinmarketchacha.hashnode.dev·Jun 7 · 3 min readHow I read the Monaco and CodeMirror editor from a Chrome extensionMost coding sites — LeetCode, GitHub, HackerRank, Replit, CodeSandbox — render their code editor with one of two libraries: Monaco (the editor that powers VS Code) or CodeMirror. I wanted a Chrome ext00
Ccircobitingauchogrid.hashnode.dev·Jun 5 · 5 min readWhy I Chose Vanilla JavaScript for a Chrome Extension (No Framework)When I started building HTML Table Exporter, the default choice would have been React or Vue. Maybe TypeScript for safety. I went with vanilla JavaScript instead. No framework. No build step for the c00
FFunlingoinengineeringgetfunlingo.hashnode.dev·Jun 4 · 5 min readThe bug that's in your product in some languages but not others (and how I found it)I run a small Chrome extension that adds dual subtitles to YouTube and Netflix and lets you click words to see meanings. Two thousand active users. Twenty-something supported language pairs. One quiet00