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Man, userscripts were my ticket to software development (a frontend dev now). Sure, I did some really crappy programming before, but mostly as a part of educati
by Klaster_1 5y ago
Man, userscripts were my ticket to software development (a frontend dev now). Sure, I did some really crappy programming before, but mostly as a part of education, not because I wanted to. Then I saw the Dollchan (or was it Govno?) and decided to make something like that for websites I frequented back then. Learned a programming language on my own for the first time, learned how to debug (Opera Dragonfly) and defineMagicFunction. In those small communities, people actually used my scripts. Recently a person contacted me because a ten years old script stopped working, asking to fix the issue. To this day, I routinely reach for Greasemonkey to solve web site annoyances, hosting the scripts in Gist for easy multi-browser compatibility and automatic updates. I hope userscripts don't ever go away.
- ossusermivami 5y agomy gateway to programming was writing a plugin for some random game in lua, what a journey so far! (Senior Principal Engineer in large GAFAM company)
- Galanwe 5y agoI get you on the excitement of small communities and ha ING people use your scripts when beginning to program. One of my first programming experience was scripting for mIRC.
- 1_player 5y agoI started with BASIC and C in my teenage years, but mIRC scripting turned coding into a passion for me. Some of my fondest memories is weekends spent chatting with friends and strangers on IRC, and improving my script or reading someone else's code in the downtime, and downloading mp3 in the background.