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[_qbjt]

Neat idea for showing off your design chops. I don’t use Twitter so I don’t have much feedback, other than your ad blocking code being brittle [1].

[1] https://github.com/thomaswangio/minimal-twitter/blob/e076507...

[_tuh3 → _qbjt]

Thanks for pointing that out, I think I might remove it. Will cause more trouble down the road. Do you have any ideas to make it more safe?

[_qbjt → _tuh3]

Unfortunately, I can’t think of any. Twitter could arbitrarily change where those elements are placed in the DOM at any time (and they probably will to prevent other extensions from blocking promoted tweets). I would just consider this out of the scope of your project and not bother handling it.

[_tuh3 → _qbjt]

Totally agreed, definitely out of scope. Just removed the script from the manifests. Thanks again!

[daxterspeed → _tuh3]

You could potentially keep searching upwards for a parentNode that has role="article". While Twitter could change their markup significantly they sorta have to support screen readers so aria attributes will poke through here and there.

[_tuh3 → daxterspeed]

Hmmm interesting, if you have some time I'd love a PR. It would be a nice feature to have tbh

[djyaz1200 → _tuh3]

Thomas, I like your work. Just joined your newsletter. Would be interested to talk. I'm @ www.sendsmart.com

[_tuh3 → djyaz1200]

Sure, I'm at thomas [at] wang.sh!