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Show HN: Visual inference exploration and experimentation playground(github.com)
46 points by devidw 2y ago|0 comments
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by devidw 3y ago
or a browser extension :)
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by devidw 3y ago
nah, the idea is to make it easy to execute javascript across multiple tabs
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by devidw 3y ago
It's a combination of chrome.runtime messaging api to establish a connection between the calling tab and the service worker and chrome.scripting api to actually execute on the target tabs. Tho you can only send json and not functions o
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by devidw 3y ago
only chrome/chromium tabs right now
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by devidw 3y ago
yea your right, i have addressed this by moving the api from the window object to a dev tools panel page & options page of the extension so the website itself is no longer able to communicate to the service worker of the extension that
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by devidw 3y ago
yea chrome only right now & yep would prob just have to replace the api signatures where "chrome" is used to port it over
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Execute any JavaScript from any browser tab on any browser tabs(github.com)
46 points by devidw 3y ago|32 comments
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by devidw 4y ago
Appreciate your notes
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by devidw 4y ago
True. I've to commit that I'm not a big fan of the classic approach of footnotes at the bottom of the page. It doesn't feel like a very nice fit in the context of a digital reading experience. Forcing the user to leave the cu
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by devidw 4y ago
Thanks a lot, clarifying this from the US perspective. Will consider coming up with a less misleading naming.
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by devidw 4y ago
I agree, but most times we are not the author of the text we read and therefore have no control over the usage of parentheses by the author. I think the only way to opt-out is to alter appearances and interactivity on our side with somethin
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by devidw 4y ago
Thanks noting StretchTex. Never heard about it before. Indeed, it shares the same motivation: Allowing users to decide what and in which detail they want to read at. I would love to see your conclusion about the usage of parentheses respect
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by devidw 4y ago
The current implementation of the idea is a Chrome extension. I can imagine non-chromium based browsers to show things up a little broken.
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by devidw 4y ago
> Curious: in which branch of English dialect are parentheses called "brackets"? Quoting Wikipedia: > In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in
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by devidw 4y ago
> What is bracket folding? What kind of brackets is this even talking about? The concept of collapsing any text between brackets "(" and ")". Like code folding in IDEs but for the web, mainly for reading long articles
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by devidw 4y ago
In those cases with valuable and informative content in brackets, I would love to see more authors integrating the content into the sentence directly or adding a new sentence.
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Realization: A web without brackets is the better web – folding all brackets(bracket-folding.wolf.gdn)
16 points by devidw 4y ago|25 comments
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by devidw 4y ago
Browser extension to collapse all brackets on any website. Everything becomes so clean and readable. Beautiful.
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by devidw 5y ago
I come across these links as well and was able to find some of the source code, which generates these spam pages. Actually, you can go ahead to such a spam page and view the index.html page of the current folder and what you will get is an