Google Tutorials

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    How to Inject a Global with Web Extensions in Manifest V3

    For those of you not familiar with the world of web extension development, a storm is brewing with Chrome. Google will stop support for manifest version 2, which is what the vast majority of web extensions use. Manifest version 3 sees many changes but the largest...

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    Easy Google Search Result API with Zenserp

    No matter how much experience I gain in this industry, one task I continue to fail at is building an accurate, flexible, and maintainable scraper for site search. As soon as sites change their HTML structure, my scrape is borked. When looking to build my own...

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    Create the Google Button Effect with CSS

    I always found Google's branding simple but grew to realize that was the beauty in their design; there's something about "just enough" that is the perfect balance between bland and over the top.  GMail's design grew old over the years and Google just got around to...

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    Easy Document Signing with the Eversign Chrome Extension

    A while back I wrote about Eversign, an awesome service that allows you and your clients or partners to digitally sign documents online.  If you've recently bought a house or did any other large purchases or agreements, you know how important the ability to reliably...

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    Custom, Embeddable Site Search with Swiftype

    As hard as we try to make our website navigation and content structure as logical as possible, a large percentage of users would prefer a simple search box to find what they need.  That being the case, we need to ensure that site search is as accurate and...

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    Set Chrome as Default Browser from Command Line

    Whenever I see a desktop GUI to accomplish a given web-related task, I'm dying to know the underlying operating system interaction to accomplish the same feat.  Many of the GUIs I use are just a front for a command line utility for that more experienced developers would use. I set...

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    Use Mozilla Firefox DevTools in Chrome

    I shared on Twitter last week that I do casual browsing in Google Chrome but do most of my development work in Firefox.  I can't give a great reason for doing so but Firefox has seemed like a development "security blanket" since I was in college (over a...

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    Questions for Google AMP

    While writing the article for David Walsh’s blog I had posted a version of the article on Medium to have @cramforce, the lead on Google AMP, answer the questions brought up. Here is a link to the article where he posted those answers: bit.ly/1VCLBr0 As developers...

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    Set Default Browser on Mac

    I like using edge browsers each day so that I'm aware of what features my website visitors will be seeing down the road, and to get an early glimpse at new browser and API features.  I prefer to do my basic browsing in Chrome Canary and...

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    Prevent Chrome from Translating a Page

    A while back I shared my favorite Google Chrome extension:  Google Art Project.  I've enjoyed seeing beautiful art when I open a new tab -- it's brought genuine happiness to my day, however small that happiness may be.  About a week ago, however, the art presented had...