I created a simple utilitarian project recently in the form of a TamperMonkey script. So what TamperMonkey? The answer is that it is a that executes a little bit of user-defined Javascript on certain webpages. The script I developed is just a simple way to add some custom links onto every Wikipedia page. As you
Abstract This post documents creating a small script to create a link from an en.wikipedia page to the corresponding simple.wikipedia page, using colors to indicate if the page exists. This project is a good example of both creating and consuming a simple REST API. (An alternative name for this post could be: “Consuming a Google
Abstract This blog post documents the creation of a simple “web-app” for viewing articles from simple.wikipedia and en.wikipedia side-by-side, and expounds on the importance of a “do-it-yourself”-attitude and a “minimalistic-mindset” to the programmer. The finished product described here can be seen at the following URL: https://kundalinisoftware.com/io/wikicompare.html Form Follows Function The phrase “form follows function” comes
“Programs often stem from a developer’s itch” unknown Introduction Google’s Chrome browser is an amazing feat of cross-platform software engineering that I (along with millions of other people!) use on a daily basis. Like other web browsers, Chrome has the ability to support extensions to extend its functionality. In this post, I am going to
If something is worth doing once, it is worth automating. Unknown (Note: the github repository for the library developed in this post is available here.) I think being a computer programmer is a mindset; it means to think in algorithmic terms, or how to formulate problems in terms of discrete steps to achieve our outcomes.