Front End Study Hall #022

February 25, 2025

Participants

A screenshot of greasemonkey.mozdev.org from 2005 or so.
- Greasemonkey is a browser extension for Firefox which allowed users to add scripts which could alter and extend the behavior of the web pages they visit. Common usages would be to hide advertisements, simplify layout, inject user stylesheets, allow for batch operations in web applications, etc. Or more fanciful usages like turning any flickr image into a puzzle
- See also:

Minimal dark mode styling: https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/01/16/minimal-dark-mode-styling/
Adding a widget to trigger light/dark mode
- Adding a widget state with cookie storage would trigger the need to do privacy/cookie usage disclosure in the EU
You can get much of dark mode out of doing filter: invert(1) against the html element! Eric Meyer does on meyerweb.com
- filter
- invert()

Eric showed his user scripts which spin elements on the page using rotate - really fun art
ViolentMonkey
What's the difference between a user script and a bookmarklet?
- They are very similar! Both can alter the page by injecting HTML, JS, and CSS to accomplish layout changes or functionality

Math equations
LaTeX https://www.latex-project.org/about/
- Pronunciation can be "LAY-Tek"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX
https://www.desmos.com/
https://www.mathjax.org/ (renders to SVG)
I found this issue for the reader I use, Newsblur: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/issues/948
https://katex.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX
meta content usage: indicates maybe a good way to embed math in a "plain text" context
In post content: potential use for an element with a class name, rather than looking for a string series to convert.
Or even better (maybe?) potential use case for a LaTeX web-component.
Possibly prior math/LaTeX web component efforts:
- https://latex.js.org/usage.html#webcomponent
- https://www.webcomponents.org/element/mathlive "A Web Component for Math Input"
- blog post about math web components: https://www.peterkrautzberger.org/0220/

Additional references:
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/MathML/Element/math
- https://www.sarahgebauer.com/post/math-in-style/
Joe Crawford's experience with mathml https://lab.artlung.com/mathml/
- Updated the day after FrESH! thanks participants!
MathML makes the mathematical operations potentially more available
MathML was and is heavily used in R notebooks, which is all markdown. In math and data disciplines
maybe file feature requests in feed readers to support LaTeX
- e.g. in Thunderbird

Sophia shared her journal https://www.streamof.me/
- manual_until_it_hurts
Thomas' Model of Attraction
- https://www.vanderwal.net/essays/moa_outline1.html
- info clouds - zones of infoclouds, local / global / inaccessible
https://personalinfocloud.com/
- "Sharing information got us out of caves"
- Do not restrict sharing

How to teach kids about websites? How to let them play on a site, export from codepen, can use GitHub to Netlify workflow.

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