Greasemonkey {Tools}

From personal use

• scripts (can) work by default with Chrome (and thus Iron)

Virtual Blinders

• source / install

In order to make CognitiveEnvironments more efficient, use the concept of Wikipedia:Blinders with Path:/pub/currenttask. It uses my Irssi#ActivitiesAliases to display my status, hide incoming messages and change my screen display to a page of recommended behavior.

Note that others can thus use this to synchronize their own activities with mine and for example avoid sending inappropriate requests. This is currently reachable through a simple GET request but could, upon demand, become a WebHook. It is also available at Contact#Status.

See also EightSixtwo which delays the page for 30 seconds.

To do

1. add "introspection" mode that blocks everything but OwnWikisNetwork
2. consider its opposite I:Site/UbiquitousNet but as the second side of the same coin

mouseless-autoscroll

• source / install
• mouseless-autoscroll page on userscripts.org
• updated default settings
  • increase BASE_TIME=4; to 5 previously before September 2010
  • increase BASE_TIME=5; to 6 previously before April 2010
• removing directly pages likely to have streaming videos

Reverted PIM links

• source / install
  • with the dedicated PmWiki conversion scripts gm_reverting_irc_logs_links gm_reverting_pim_links
    • should provide an example User.js on famous websites
    • now using User.js over Prefs.js
      • might be problematic for deleted links since it will set over existing variable but will probably not remove older ones
    • check if a Firefox instance can be queried to reload it via the CLI (seems not possible for this)
    • should use nightly Crontab remotely to generate then locally to pull and merge the update every morning
    • note that as of the 10/06/2011 it takes roughly ~10 minutes to parse this whole wiki, probably mostly dedicated to applying theme which has no impact on the result here
      • except that localmap matters, maybe doing it manually and use ?action=source would be more efficient though, if so then directly hitting the files will be faster put require more processing
        • but since localmap is fundamental (more than 500 links) it directly hitting the files then it should still be applied
    • manage multiple wikis (cf Wiki.OwnWikisNetwork)
    • re-consider the packaging to be more efficient for the farm started in OurP.IM
  • known bugs
    • impossible to fold if there are most links than the page can show
      • partly fixed via keyboard shortcut
• consider flipping the information box for better screen real-estate
  • harder to read
• added color per group support
  • could be interesting to see if ones develops habits coherent with WithoutNotesMay11#SoulDust, see also Wikipedia:Synesthesia
  • yet see also Why Should Engineers and Scientists Be Worried About Color? by Bernice E. Rogowitz and Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM Research 1996
• discussed in September 2010 on freenode/##pim

To do

• minimalist visualization of linked pages
  • e.g. via Processing
  • bias network also based on current tasks a la CognitiveEnvironments
  • consider more generally (outside the web) for Overlay
    • thus also with more contextual information e.g. position (a la Trips
  • apply the hashing colors
    • generalize those to other visualizations
• porting to Seeks via http://www.seeks-project.info/wiki/index.php/How_Seeks_works_and_how_to_extend_it#How_to_extend_it
• (finally) apply Seedea:Oimp/Socialannotating
• ignore pages with lots of links related to the overall website, not the page, e.g. Quora

Inspired by

• OurPIM:PIM/ShiftSpacing

Alternatives

• diigo similar functionality.

Youtube Brownian Playlist

• play a random song linked to the current one (to infinity)
  • can be based on Joe Simmons' YouTube Random Video Playlist

Functions used

• GM_xmlhttpRequest() to pull a page from my own server
• GM_log() to check against problems
• GM_getValue()/GM_setValue() to handle persistence
• warning on scope and sandbox whith callback functions, e.g. setInverval()/setTimeout()
  • http://commons.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Greasemonkey_Hacks/Getting_Started#Pitfall_.231:_Auto-eval_Strings

To explore

• greasespot and its wiki
• Wikipedia:Greasemonkey
• directly modify ~/.mozilla/firefox/XXXXXXXX.default/gm_scripts/config.xml exclude/include
• adapt own content (e.g. PiecesOfCulture or Noted) to a way to check against what has already been consumed (and ideally rated) a la Reverted PIM links
  • cf http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/31369
• online interface to ToDo#Maintenance result
  • e.g. displaying in red problematic links while browsing a page

Note

My notes on Tools gather what I know or want to know. Consequently they are not and will never be complete references. For this, official manuals and online communities provide much better answers.