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Since everyone is sharing, I'm using bookmarklets daily, the main ones being 3x and 2x, which find the video element in the current page and speed it up.

I also made some overlay grid helpers, like 8h and 8v which create some overlay pass through elements and render red grid lines(8px spacing) using css. This is like an alignment tool for every page.

The bad thing is that Chrome and Edge don't highlight bookmarks by default when searching and makes one to type the top arrow key. Firefox used to be better in this regard, with the bookmarklet highlighted and ready to hit. The workaround for Chrome and Edge is to make the bookmarklet a search engine, that makes the bookmarklet selected by default.

Bookmarklets and custom search engines (for various online documentation sites, or plain jira, or aws) can be a productivity booster.

I wouldn't be able to navigate aws ssm without my trusty ssm search engine. Same for the others: EC2, CF, S3.

I should be using bookmarklets more though.



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