I took over stewardship of the Spaces Chrome extension recently (open source repo). Dean, the original developer, no longer wanted to maintain it. Chrome Extension Manifest V3 had caused the extension to be broken for a couple years, and then eventually taken down from the Chrome Web Store. I have been a heavy daily user of this extension for over a decade.
Ok, he wants to sell me on this "Spaces" thing now...
Read the rest of this entry ...Happy New Year! Inspired by jfmherokiller, I updated the kthoom comic book reader to allow for fetching comics books over the InterPlanetary File System.
I still have lots to learn about IPFS. I have some code locally that lets you put books up on the IPFS, but I haven't committed that yet as I'm still working out the concepts and debugging things...
I use my open source comic book reader, kthoom, quite a bit (more than I probably should!). Every once in awhile, I'll come across a comic book file that kthoom won't open and I'll delightedly set some time aside in the evening/weekend to work on fixing the JavaScript. Hacking keeps me sane. Read the rest of this entry ...