Eric Wahlforss is one of the guys behind SoundCloud. This is where he jots down thoughts on the web, music and strategy, among other things.
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Citeulike greasemonkey proxy script
Got tired of constantly copying and pasting the acm library link from entries on citeulike (in order to get the correct proxy url for Royal Institute of Technology), and so I hacked together a small greasemonkey script that will do the job. Up for grabs.
Bug in Google
There seems to be a typo in the Google Wikipedia links feature. An & sign is missing, which destroys all the links to Wikipedia. Try this or this and click the Wikipedia link. First time I discover a Google search bug, I think. Wonder how many corrupt Wikipedia pages that little bug results in..?
Would be very cool if there was a “public bug tracker” where one could enter a bug for any website. And if anyone could submit a patch, it would be even cooler. Greasemonkey is one step in the right direction, since it allows for the creation of “temporary patches” for any website. But we need a platform where both Greasemonkey bugs and patches can easily be submitted.
Lickr
Greasemonkey is clearly showing the way. What’s so cool about it is that it enables users of websites to actually contribute code to them!
A good example: I used to be annoyed by the fact that Flickr used Flash to display photos on individual photo pages. On OS X, it causes a slight delay in the loading of each page, destroying the otherwise slick user experience. Meet Lickr. It solves this problem quite elegantly by providing a javascript version of the photo display widget. Sure hope the Flickr folks are listening!
I wonder if there is a way for Greasemonkey to add something to the User-Agent HTTP-header so that site owners can be notified when their sites are being “remixed”. That would totally close the loop.