cognitive psychology. PhD 
writing a browser extension should be easier than making a Web page
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3. a lot of the difficulty of making an extension that I had in mind isn't these Web content issues; it's stuff like, you have to write it as these 3 separate scripts that communicate asynchronously, and you need weird manifest file, and you need to manually import your extension
my gold standard for extensibility has always been Garry's Mod - easy to attach a programming chip to any object - easy to inspect others' work and duplicate it - permissions handled by the game - nice difficulty slope of hardcoded actions -> digital circuits -> full programs
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i have a chrome extension that literally just hides the facebook news feed -- something like that should be trivial. in gmod, you have a toolgun that can toggle visibility of objects. point, click, done. persists across loads of the map. i just want my toolgun back :(
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i do this kind of thing for lots of sites via stylus+devtools. a direct-manipulator / dom-structure-editor targeting this workflow might be a sweet spot. i think some kind of hybrid in-line editing might be a good take here ala my reply here:https://disconcision.com/post/617119019406934016/this-may-not-be-relevant-as-im-not-100-sure-im …
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