A blog on browser extensions, automation, and no code.

Todd Schiller

Todd Schiller

What do Chromebooks mean for the future of work and RPA?

What do Chromebooks mean for the future of work and RPA?

I still remember the first time I got my hands on a first-gen Chromebook. It was 2011 and I was a computer science PhD student at the idyllic University of Washington. I was coming into my own as a tech guinea pig — Amazon had given my class large-screened Kindle DXs

A Brief History of Browser Extensibility

A Brief History of Browser Extensibility

Web browsers are the modern operating system. Google’s Chrome OS, an operating system that runs the Chrome Browser exclusively, is now the second most popular desktop operating system. Additionally, the rise of Electron and similar cross-platform frameworks means that many of the applications we use every day (e.g.

7 bite-sized tips for reliable web automation and scraping selectors

7 bite-sized tips for reliable web automation and scraping selectors

If you’re like most developers, you’ve probably encountered Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) selectors for styling webpages. sea For example, the following CSS rule combines a paragraph element selector p with a class name selector .lead to set the font size: p.lead { font-size: 32px; } We can mix-and-match CSS

The PixieBrix Manifesto: Web Customization for the Masses

The PixieBrix Manifesto: Web Customization for the Masses

My freshman year of college, I interned as an “equities analyst”. What this meant in practice was that I was supposed to look up numbers in a terminal, and then type them into an Excel spreadsheet. The software provider hadn’t gotten around to implementing export for the data yet.