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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Bookmarklets

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes take Matt Busche’s suggestion and talk all about bookmarklets and scripts to modify or manipulate web pages. MagicBell - Sponsor MagicBell is the the notification inbox for your product. Add a MagicBell to your product for announcements, billing, workflow, and other notifications. The free plan supports up to 100 Monthly Active Users - use the coupon code SYNTAXFM for 10% off the first 12 months. NAME - Sponsor COPY HERE Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 02:02 What are bookmarklets? Matt Busche’s fav bookmarklets Gist Bookmarklet Maker CSS Tricks - Web Development Bookmarklets 04:49 Using an Immediately invoked function expression 09:22 Greasemonkey Greasemonkey Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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Monday! Monday! Monday! Open wide dev fans! Get ready! To stuff your face with

0:07.0

JavaScript CSS! Node modules! Barbecue tips! Get workflow! Break dancing! Soft skills!

0:12.0

Web development! The hastiest! The craziest! The tastiest! Web development

0:17.0

treats! Coming in hot! Here is Wes Barakuda! Boss and Scott El Torro Lugo!

0:24.0

Tolinsky!

0:27.0

Welcome to syntax in this Monday hasty treat. We're going to be talking about a

0:33.0

technique that many of you may have used before or may not and we're talking about

0:38.0

book marklets all about what a book marklet actually is and how you can use

0:44.0

them to have some interesting behavior for your tools. My name is Scott

0:50.0

Elinsky. I'm a developer from Denver, Colorado. I don't with me as always is Wes

0:54.0

Boss. Hey everybody! Hey Wes, this episode is sponsored by an amazing company

1:01.0

Ding Ding Ding Magic Bell. Magic Bell is the embeddable notification

1:07.0

inbox. So we'll talk quite a bit about Magic Bell, right? Now, Wes! Yes,

1:14.0

Magic Bell, the real-time notification inbox for your product. So you think

1:19.0

okay, I'm building an app. I want to be able to put notifications into it. So

1:24.0

you're like, oh, just push to an array. It's a lot more complicated than that. If you

1:28.0

want to notify your user, you want to have an app notification, email them,

1:33.0

push notifications, Slack notification. What if you want to somebody solve the

1:38.0

in-app notification so you shouldn't email them? What if they get 10 in one

1:43.0

minute where you should batch them? There's all kinds of stuff to it. So Magic Bell

1:47.0

solves all of that. You can integrate it right into your application. You're

1:51.0

going to want to check it out at magicbell.com and use the coupon code

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