tinkering
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Six months ago in Jan I ported JustHTML to PHP. I had also released a CLI for it and published it via Homebrew to make document parsing, selecting DOM nodes and dumping to markdown super easy. Most of the heavy lifting at the time was done by ChatGPT 5.2 Codex, a fantastic model that did…
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A couple of weeks ago, I read Emil Stenström’s write-up on building JustHTML, then Simon Willison’s post about porting it to JavaScript with Codex. That inspired me to create a PHP port in the same vein: a pure PHP library for HTML parsing that passes the html5lib test suite and stays compatible with as many PHP versions…
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Took some time off work to recharge this summer and built this: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hn-followblock/dkbnpfgpgljemihbcdmadffanebbjacc It’s my first Chrome extension. Largely built by Claude Code honestly. I just wanted to understand the process of building an extension, testing it locally in dev mode, and publishing it to the Chrome official store. Spoiler: it costs a one-time fee…