Fixing the web with greasemonkey

How to fix the web with greasemonkey.

This talk was presented by Paul Fenwick ( http://pjf.id.au/blog ) at linux.conf.au, and won the award of "best lightning talk" for the conference.

A higher resolution copy of the essay can be found at: http://flickr.com/photos/pfenwick/369990413/ . Yes, I really did write this when I was about eight years old.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• greasemonkey
• firefox
• lca2008
• linux.conf.au
• funny
• BarCampMelbourne2008

[Briancmwilliams]

"Which website are we gonna suck?"

ahh im priceless

[pjfenwick]

That was a completely unintentional flub. When talking I'm always trying to remember my next line along ("One that sucks"). In this case, it got mixed with my current line ("Which website are we going to fix?")

Luckily for me, the audience thought it was funny. ;)

[pjfenwick]

Thanks everyone! I've added a link to a higher-resolution, easier-to-read, and creative commons / GFDL licensed copy of the story in the video info.

If only my handwriting were that neat now.

[coorrel]

Open source FTW!!!

[mauricioph]

excellent speech, I wouldn't do better and I believe not even Steve Jobs would.

Congratulation.

[nintram]

One of the most irritating videos I've seen in a while. The 20% of useful information is killed by the 80% of annoying intonation, pointless BS overhead and fake audience.

>WHY.jpg

[TheTrueRandomness]

This is an amazing talk - add some adblock plus into the mix and whenever you're back on a "vanilla" webbrowser you're shocked how people manage to use the "normal" web :)

[TastyTeo]

Im gonna learn javascript now

[Peace353]

excellent speech.

[Stevmay09]

With greasemonkey, i removed the "Featured videos" Section. it's a really neat program!

[CRAKIZGOOD]

i fixed youtube and removed :featured videos"

thanks

[TheRandomnessofAandP]

LOVED IT