Automating an app with no DOM: driving Flutter/canvas editors with coordinates only
In my last post I said that for normal HTML pages, element-based automation ( find / read_page ) beats coordinates every time. This post is about the …
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Chrome Built-In AI APIs: A Hands-On Guide to Language Detection, Translation, Summarization and Writing Assistance
Introduction Chrome's Built-In AI APIs allow applications to perform selected AI workloads directly within the browser. Unlike traditional AI integrat…
Extract Text From Scanned PDFs — Locally, No Upload, No Fees
Extract Text From Scanned PDFs — Locally, No Upload, No Fees Scanned contracts. Old receipts. Medical documents. Bank statements. We all have PDFs tha…
I built a Chrome extension that drag-and-drops YouTube videos into playlists using AI
The problem I have hundreds of saved YouTube videos scattered across playlists. Every time I find something worth saving, I have to: open the video, c…
A 20-year-old HCI paper, resurrected as a Chrome extension
I missed the tiny "x" on a browser tab again today. Meant to close it, switched to it instead. Aiming a one-pixel pointer at an eleven-pixel checkbox …
5 mistakes I made building an AI Chrome extension — and the readers who caught them
I've been reviewing pull requests for most of my career. At some point the queue got bad enough that I stopped asking "which PR should I review first?…
Block Google's AI Overviews at the Network Layer, Not the DOM
Google puts an AI Overview at the top of most search results now, and a lot of people would rather it didn't. So there's a whole shelf of Chrome exten…
Chat Exporter for Gemini – Save Conversations as Word, PDF, Notion & Markdown
Hi dev community! 👋 I wanted to share a Chrome extension I recently built to solve a personal frustration: Chat Exporter for Gemini . Whenever I used …
Detecting Which AI Chat Platform You're On: URL and DOM Patterns for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot
If you're building a Chrome extension that works with AI chat platforms — prompt injection, session export, UI customization — you need to know which …
Google just shipped an official "agent-ready" toolkit. Here's the one thing it can't measure.
For most of 2026, "is my website agent-ready?" was a question you answered with vibes and a blog post. As of last week, Chrome answers it with a toolk…
Gemini in Chrome is about to call WebMCP. The "no agent uses it yet" excuse just got an expiry date.
For most of 2026 the honest objection to WebMCP went like this: "Cool API. But no mainstream agent actually calls navigator.modelContext , so why ship…
Scraping Prices Without an API: Chrome Content Script Patterns for Japanese E-Commerce
Japanese e-commerce is fragmented. The same product — a vintage camera, a game console, a brand bag — can vary by ¥5,000–¥30,000 between Amazon.co.jp,…
Migrating to Manifest V3: what actually broke, what we saved, and what we gained
I built three Chrome extensions natively on Manifest V3. Not ported — built from scratch knowing MV3 was the target. Here's what that actually means i…
Plasmo vs CRXJS vs WXT: Which Chrome Extension Framework Should You Use in 2026?
If you are starting a browser extension in 2026, you no longer hand-roll a manifest.json , wire up a Webpack config, and pray that hot reload works on…
Browser Scroll Restoration Is Broken on SPAs. Here's How a Chrome Extension Fixes It.
Chrome has had scroll restoration support since 2015. You can even control it: history.scrollRestoration = 'manual' . But if you've ever tried to reli…
5 Cookie Tricks for Debugging Auth Issues in Chrome (No More Creating Test Accounts)
Debugging authentication in web apps is painful. You need to test the same flow as five different user types — new visitor, returning user, admin, exp…
5 Cookie Tricks for Debugging Auth Issues in Chrome (No More Creating Test Accounts)
Debugging authentication in web apps is painful. You need to test the same flow as five different user types — new visitor, returning user, admin, exp…
5 Cookie Tricks for Debugging Auth Issues in Chrome (No More Creating Test Accounts)
Debugging authentication in web apps is painful. You need to test the same flow as five different user types — new visitor, returning user, admin, exp…
Chrome Put a 4GB AI Model on Your Computer: What Gemini Nano Means for Privacy
Originally published on MRTD.NET — fast, sourced news on crypto security, cyber & SEO. If you run a recent version of Google Chrome on a desktop, …
Why recording video in the browser is harder than it looks
Hey folks! In this article, I want to share our experience building a screen recorder inside the browser. The product is Browser Recorder , a Chrome e…
I scraped Chrome Web Store reviews to find abandoned extensions that still have 100k+ users
I've shipped 4 Chrome extensions and 2 VS Code extensions. The advice that always sounds smart — "find a popular extension the dev abandoned, rebuild …
I built 3 Chrome extensions from scratch as a solo developer – here's what I learned (code included)
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MV3 Chrome Extension Tutorial: What Changed and How to Build It Right
MV2 vs MV3 — The Four Breaking Changes These are the four changes that will actually break your code or reject your submission. 1. Service worker repl…
为什么请求AI的API请求在Apifox中流式输出但在浏览器中一次性输出？
相同的AI请求，为什么用apifox看是根据时间流式输出的，但是在浏览器上面看请求的EventStream就是在同一个时间输出的 这是前端请求的代码 if ('fetch' in window) { // 使用 fetch API response = await fetch('/v1/workfl…
I built a privacy-first JSON viewer for Chrome after I got tired of waiting
A few months ago, like many devs, I noticed something off about the JSON viewer extension I'd been using for years. It had been quietly updated. The c…
How I built thredly: a Chrome extension that never lets your AI context window die
If you use ChatGPT, Claude, or DeepSeek heavily, you've hit this wall: the context window fills up, responses get worse, and you're forced to start a …
I built a New Tab replacement for developers drowning in tabs
Every developer I know has the same problem: too many tabs, no context, and a vague sense of dread every time they open a new one. I'd open a new tab …
How AI reads your website, and what that means for the people who build it
By Takeshi Yokoyama — Onecarat Labs Hi. I'm Yokoyama, and I build a local-first AI text editor as a side project, along with a few other experimental …
Keyboard shortcuts that fixed my editing flow
I used to lose my train of thought every time I reached for the mouse to translate or fix a sentence. It sounds minor, but when you're writing in a se…
I built a Chrome extension to stop squinting at the web
We've all been there. You open an article, a documentation page, or a research paper — and the font is tiny, the line spacing is suffocating, or the c…