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While I agree those areas are much nicer, most people still need to commute to go work in, and spend considerable amount of time in soma, fidi, etc.

I used to live in one of those areas you talk about, yet still was attacked and threatened several times in the span of 6 months during my commute to our office on Market street.

Hi HN! Excited to showcase a fun browser extension we built over the weekend. Lenses is a browser extension for Twitter that transforms all the tweets in your feed to make them match your mood.

So great to hear! What kind of extension are you building?

Great feedback! I'll push a change to add that.

We have a lot of ideas on how to make this problem a lot easier. It's a big reason why extensions aren't as big as they could be. Browser extension devs having to tinker and even think about the DOM or any other website-specific quirk is a leaky abstraction.

If it's an issue, people's usual approach to solving that problem is to create some mapping of "twitter-sidebar : some XPath selector" on the backend and have their extension query whenever they want to interact with the web page.

They'll have e2e tests to check if their selectors or xpaths still work. If not, they'll figure out what changed and modify the xpath. Some automate this step.

It's tricky because A/B tests are a thing, websites might change based on geographical region, and a bunch of other stuff that leads to users seeing different things in the DOM compared to the e2e test). Logging errors to something like Sentry mitigates some of this, but the complexity is still quite large.

It stems from the fact that frontends only consider humans, not robots. You either need to make your robot super resilient to change (above approach), make your robot act more like a human, have the website consider the robot ("Connect to Wallet", etc), or use the web app's backend API if it exists.

We're experimenting with all four of these approaches this year and seeing which ones are the most valuable to people, so stay tuned for more exciting extension stuff!

Yeah, I believe China doesn't even allow TLSv1.3

In his most recent testimony, Mudge mentioned that he was in the leaked OPM database with his details and clearance level leaked which implies he had clearance.

Thanks for the feedback! Updated it.

Thanks!