TabFS – a browser extension that mounts the browser tabs as a filesystem

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  1. TabFS

    🗄 Mount your browser tabs as a filesystem.

    Hmm, this might be the right audience - anyone with C and JS skills want to poke at https://github.com/osnr/TabFS/issues/75 and maybe come up with a pull request? (I got as far as I could on the C side, all the details are in the issue, but I'm not sure what shape the javascript side of the fix would be...)

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  3. cursorless

    Don't let the cursor slow you down

    If you're programming, and open to doing it by voice, definitely check out Cursorless: https://www.cursorless.org/

  4. VBAChromeDevProtocol

    VBA (Excel) based wrapper for Chrome Developer Protocol (CDP) - sorta a VBA version of Puppeteer/Selenium

    I used to scan all the tabs in open browser windows to preserve all open URLs.

    See also https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/ with Playwright et. al., even Excel VBA: https://github.com/PerditionC/VBAChromeDevProtocol

  5. tab-transporter

    Bulk move tabs across browsers on macOS

    Shameless plug: I've made a set of AppleScripts I call "Tab Transporter" for moving groups of tabs between browsers. The code is painful to write when you're used to a normal programming language, but these examples could be useful for anyone else looking to interact with browser tabs via AppleScript.

    https://github.com/tedmiston/tab-transporter

  6. bb-adrs

    Architecture Decision Records for Buildbarn

    The open-source implemention I'm aware of is in Buildbarn

    Design doc: https://github.com/buildbarn/bb-adrs/blob/master/0009-nfsv4....

  7. go-xdr

    An XDR (External Data Representation) to Go compiler

  8. btfs

    A bittorrent filesystem based on FUSE.

    Something in a similar vein: BTFS, mount a torrent file (or magnet link) as a read only drive https://github.com/johang/btfs

    It's really good, and use it a lot of times

  9. SaaSHub

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  10. tabist

    Simple Tab Manager Extension for Chrome and Firefox.

    I have a extension that does that almost pretty identically to what you are looking for... it does list out every page you have but doesn't list the url. there is an unreleased version that I use that has a tab dumping to json that I use for just that session restore reason.

    Maybe I'll finish the updated version and release it soon.

    feel free to check it out: https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/

    https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabist/hdjegjggiog...

  11. osa-chrome

    Emacs remote tab control for Google Chrome

    You mean like what this does?

    https://github.com/atomontage/osa-chrome

  12. melpa

    Recipes and build machinery for the biggest Emacs package repo

  13. raycast-script-commands

    Personal Scripts for Raycast Script Commands https://github.com/raycast/script-commands

  14. pip

    The Python package installer

    > even package managers like pip

    This reminds me of a blog post [1] I read before. Pertinent quote:

    > Unbeknownst to me, even with --dry-run pip will execute arbitrary code found in the package's setup.py. In fact, merely asking pip to download a package can execute arbitrary code (see pip issues 7325 [2] and 1884 [3] for more details)!

    Also seen on Twitter [4].

    [1] https://moyix.blogspot.com/2022/09/someones-been-messing-wit...

    [2] https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/7325

    [3] https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/1884

    [4] https://twitter.com/moyix/status/1566561433898426368

  15. objc-lisp-bridge

    A portable reader and bridge for interacting with Objective-C and Cocoa

    Interestingly, all the AppleScript functionality is built on an objective-c api called ScriptingBridge and it’s relatively easy to use a real programming language for the same sorts of things. JavaScript is natively supported by Script Editor, but there’s bindings for Ruby and Python too. I’ve wrapped it up in Common Lisp for my own use: https://github.com/fiddlerwoaroof/objc-lisp-bridge/blob/mast...

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