Stylish was an awesome browser extension that enabled you to override CSS on websites. Turns out that it logs every single URL you visit! https://robertheaton.com/2018/07/02/stylish-browser-extension-steals-your-internet-history/
For Google searches, it also records the search term and search results. Yikes.
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That said, GitHub just added support in August 2025, so I suspect I'd still find use cases that don't work yet:
I find it fascinating how some businesses have scheduled downtime for their websites (e.g. my electricity provider last weekend), but others don't.
I suspect it's primarily culture. You generally need to turn off electricity to do work, so your other tooling may reflect that.
I've written CLI programs, GUIs, websites, but never a smartphone app. I suspect it would be tricky: playing with your WIP app on a laptop doesn't feel the same as loading it on a handset.
Have you ever written a smartphone app to scratch an itch? How was it?
