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Paul Graham Topics

• RyanMcGreal 17y ago
  Looks like it searches the text for text inside <b>...</b> tags and writes out the list of matches in an absolutely positioned div. A Topics script written for a sanely coded website would presumably look for text inside heading tags.
  • DanielRibeiro 17y ago
    Yes, that is pretty much how it works (it is a very simple hack). Therefore it is very specific to pg's essays, as it doesn't uses headings. But worked so well for me that I decided to share (and do a sinatra app that injects it, as some of my friends would not install greasemonkey just for this).
    • RyanMcGreal 17y ago
      Simple hacks are often the best. Thanks for sharing!
• DanielRibeiro 17y ago
  You can see it working online (without any install needed) on http://paulgrahamsidebar.heroku.com/ http://paulgrahamsidebar.heroku.com/. The source of the web app can be found on github: http://github.com/danielribeiro/PaulGrahamSideBar http://github.com/danielribeiro/PaulGrahamSideBar
  • DanielRibeiro 17y ago
    As the hosting site, userscripts.org, seems to be having difficulties (http://blog.arpitnext.com/2010/04/userscript-org-is-down.html http://blog.arpitnext.com/2010/04/userscript-org-is-down.htm...) with alleged unintentional DDOS, I've uploaded the script on github as well: http://github.com/danielribeiro/PaulGrahamSideBar/raw/master/resources/paul_graham_topics.js http://github.com/danielribeiro/PaulGrahamSideBar/raw/master...