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Frustrated Rant!

That course really bites ass and is extremely difficult. It covers everything under the sun and you have to be able to read Javascript programs with no ability to run them and figure out what they do. And the same for determining what snippets of CSS do. This is actually quite hard.

I passed it by a lot, but I wasn’t confident in it as you have to learn a huge amount of material across three extremely large areas of study and just hope you studied the right things.

Copy This, Copy That

I’ve now written two different extensions for Firefox (both signed, but none of them publicly released as I just don’t need that kind of drama). One copies text and converts it to title case. The other takes text from a page copied into the clipboard and turns it into a plain-text anchor link with the copied-from page as the link target and the text properly formatted with punctuation.

Neither one is really that sophisticated but both do exactly what I want them to do. And it was so much more of a hassle than it should’ve been for a browser running locally on my computer and in my control. Or, rather, should be in my control. I have nearly no power to alter what the browser UI can do so adding an icon for an extension to the non-existent status bar is now impossible. And all the fake security means I cannot substantially change the UI to do anything useful.

Even worse, to even run any extension permanently on my own goddamn machine I have to get Mozilla to sign it so it’ll persist beyond a Firefox restart (in regular editions of FF). It is fucking insane anyone puts up with this. I cannot understand it.

To use what the kids do these days, you are all cucks. Miserable, simpering ones.

No Comp

It’s insane. But we’ve done it and are doing it.

I’m not worried about my job because there is zero competition behind me. No one can do the things I do and no one is learning them. The younger generations just have not had the opportunities, and in every aspect this decline is accelerating.

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