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i've had a couple of bookmark-type extensions built over the years but quality was usually garbage, including the ones i wrote from scratch, so they all eventua
by readonthegoapp 4y ago
i've had a couple of bookmark-type extensions built over the years but quality was usually garbage, including the ones i wrote from scratch, so they all eventually got abandoned.
i still am able to do much of what i want natively - def not all.
like, i have a 'News' tab that i right click to open 32 media sites that give me all the ways the world is prob going to end today.
i have a bunch of 'search engine and site search' shortcuts that get me to all sorts of places - right click the location/url bar and go from there.
google/chrome type-ahead/lookahead pulls up a few of the sites i like to go to.
i've recently gotten better about opening the bookmarks with a shortcut and then searching for a keyword for some bookmark i want.
last time i built my own bookmark extension, i had 8,000+ bookmarks, i think. prob never looked at most more than once.
maybe google is just too good?
- tgflynn 4y agoI'm currently working on a bookmark extension for Chrome, initially targeting my own needs, but I hope to make it available to others eventually. I'm wondering if there are any insights you could share about what factors led to the quality issues you mentioned.
- readonthegoapp 4y agosometimes i just outsourced stuff to people who were not technically capable enough. even good-ish devs can have trouble with the javascript event loop / promises / etc. outside of that, i think quality can tumble when a solo dev starts to lose interest -- i.e. burnout.