Making My Website Agent-Friendly: A WebMCP Field Test
I added WebMCP to my podcast transcript search and measured it: what WebMCP is, why it isn't a regular MCP server, the token savings, and how to switch it on for your own site.
Tagged "javascript"
9 articles tagged javascript.
Screen Portal: sharing a partial screen region in Google Meet
Google Meet only lets you share a full window or a Chrome tab. What if you only need to show a small region of your screen? Screen Portal uses the Screen Capture API to crop and relay any area of your screen into a shareable Chrome tab.
How to Change YouTube Playback Speed with a Simple Bookmarklet
Playback speed options now appear on some YouTube videos, and vanish on others. This lightweight bookmarklet lets you toggle playback speed controls on any YouTube video.
Using a TV-style background blur to showcase portrait images in landscape layouts
How can we best showcase a portrait image in an application designed for landscape images? TV news has the answer! With a small bit of CSS, we can achieve an eye-catching "blurred background" effect.
CSS & Javascript truncated by nginx
On several recent projects I’ve been using VirtualBox and Vagrant to spin up new development machines. My code was mounted from a windows host, and initially all was going well. Then suddenly my app started spitting out javascript errors. Digging in to chrome’s error console, it looked like the last 40 or 50 bytes of the file were missing. Same for the CSS files. A frustrating investigation had begun...
Symlink shenanigans - node.js, npm, express and vagrant
Recently I was working on a new project on a virtual box set up through vagrant. For those of you who haven't used it, vagrant is an amazing tool that makes it crazy-easy to set up and deploy uniform development environments on virtual servers. However, I ran in to a very frustrating issue when trying to install the node.js framework express through npm.
Bookmarklets – a quick introduction!
Bookmarklets allow us as a user to add some basic functionality to a web site from our browser, without needing to have access to that site’s server. Once the bookmarklet is clicked, whatever javascript it contains will execute on the current page.
DeCluttering Twitter, Part Deux
Twitter recently launched “Hovercards” on the web interface. Whenever I move my mouse up, down or across my timeline, these hovercards are springing up and obscuring other tweets in the timeline. Personally, I’ve been finding this feature far more annoying than useful, so would like to turn it off. Let's try this with a bookmarklet.
DeClutter Twitter
DeClutter is a javascript bookmarklet which will remove from your timeline any tweets which match a “blacklist” of keywords you’ve defined.