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Jonah Bishop
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Jonah Bishop writes Born Geek Latest Posts, a personal blog at borngeek.com about programming and web. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jonah Bishop's Firefox extension tutorials, including self-hosting extensions with auto-updates. Commenters call one tutorial helpful and another up to date and very detailed.
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What Hacker News says?
I've written Firefox extensions, and I gave up on the official Mozilla extension store. It is far easier to host the extension xpi yourself and provide the update configuration in your extension manifest for your own webserver. This lets you auto-update your extension yourself. The only downside is you have to learn how to sign the extension with either the command line or an eccentric GUI program on windows. All of…
Comment linking /firefox/automatic-firefox-extension-updates/
on “Writing Extensions for Firefox Is Barely Worth the Trouble”I totally agree that Firefox extensions are a massive pain. I tried the review process and after the waits, and rejections, I gave up and hosted it myself. You can host Firefox extensions and have them auto-update, but it's not well documented on what magic settings you need to enable to do so. This tutorial was helpful: http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/automatic-firefox-extension-...
Comment linking /firefox/automatic-firefox-extension-updates/
on “How To Create Your Own Chrome Extensions”As a Workflowy user, I needed a way to do this and found it in the Colt[1] add-on for firefox. I use the following custom formats to insert tabs and newlines and it produces pretty slick bookmarks in Workflowy's bullet style for me. Standard bookmark with optional quote via highlighting: %T %N %B %U %N %L %N %?[S{"%S"}] Long form quote: via %U%N%L%N%N%?[S{"%S"}] Long form quote with annotations: #note via %U%N%L%N%N…
Comment linking /firefox/colt
on “The Sad State of Personal Knowledgebases”this is way out of date. However, this link is pretty up to date (3.5) http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/ and very detailed...
Comment linking /firefox/
on “Firefox Extension Development Tutorial”