Daniel Perelman
The problem# I wanted a web page to always show the latest version, but the page is a static page that is auto-regenerated when new data is available, and I did not want to complicate my setup by involving server-side logic in accomplishing that. This can be done manually by clicking the refresh...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# Slashdot recently made a change to their ad code that made the site completely fail to load for me, showing the message Failed to load website properly since html-load.com is blocked. Please allow html-load.com and then blaming ad blocking: This page could not be loaded properly...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# Last time, I built a user script that could run on the Folklife 2024 schedule page1 and reorganize it so it would display the schedule as a grid. But it was brittle and awkward to use because it requiring careful ordering of the interactions with the page and reloading to view a...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# The Folklife 2024 schedule page1 is a schedule grid: locations are along the x-axis and time is along the y-axis. Except it's not actually arranged as a grid: each column is just stacked in order with no correspondence to the other columns or the absolute times of the events. Glancing...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# I was writing a user script where I wanted to be able to intercept the fetch() calls the web page made so my script could use the contents. I found a suggestion of simply reassigning window.fetch to my own function that internally called the real window.fetch while also doing whatever...