I’ve put a lot of work into Missing e in the last three weeks in preparation for the upcoming version 2.3.0. Even more so than I was preparing the first release! I’ve just completed the meat of the work of changing the main code for Missing e (the parts that do most of the display changes and feature adding) so that the same code files can be shared between the Chrome, Firefox and Safari versions of the extension. The idea behind this is that when I want to add features or fix bugs, I only have to make one change instead of three. Easier for me, and quicker for you to get your hands on new versions! Even the process of making the code common has enabled me to find and fix a few bugs I’d missed. You can keep track of changes to Missing e on the Change History page. You are also welcome to check out the code yourself, on github. Making the Missing e code common to all three browsers (the technical term is platform-agnostic) will hopefully pave the way toward a Missing e extension for the Opera web browser. I’ll have to develop an interface to the Opera extension API that matches the others and then just plug in all the existing common code! Stay tuned early next year when I hope to start making headway on the Opera effort. You guys make a happy developer, with Missing e having exceeded 800,000 downloads recently (estimated), and feature suggestions coming in from many users.
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I’ve put a lot of work into Missing e in the last three weeks in preparation for the upcoming version 2.3.0. Even more so than I was preparing the first release!

I’ve just completed the meat of the work of changing the main code for Missing e (the parts that do most of the display changes and feature adding) so that the same code files can be shared between the Chrome, Firefox and Safari versions of the extension.

The idea behind this is that when I want to add features or fix bugs, I only have to make one change instead of three. Easier for me, and quicker for you to get your hands on new versions! Even the process of making the code common has enabled me to find and fix a few bugs I’d missed. You can keep track of changes to Missing e on the Change History page. You are also welcome to check out the code yourself, on github.

Making the Missing e code common to all three browsers (the technical term is platform-agnostic) will hopefully pave the way toward a Missing e extension for the Opera web browser. I’ll have to develop an interface to the Opera extension API that matches the others and then just plug in all the existing common code! Stay tuned early next year when I hope to start making headway on the Opera effort.

You guys make a happy developer, with Missing e having exceeded 800,000 downloads recently (estimated), and feature suggestions coming in from many users.

Remember, Missing e is an open source project. Feel free to browse through the code and take a look at recent code changes on github!

I’ve recently added a little feed on the Missing e Tumblr page showing recent code check-ins. You can keep your eye on what I’ve been working on lately. [github.commits.widget project by Alexander Beletsky]

I also just found github’s Octodex…. Octocat is cute.

This is a graph representing the breakdown of time spent developing Missing e (the commit activity on github). Seems I need to sleep better. If you are interested, Missing e’s entire codebase is open source and available to peruse on github!
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This is a graph representing the breakdown of time spent developing Missing e (the commit activity on github). Seems I need to sleep better.

If you are interested, Missing e’s entire codebase is open source and available to peruse on github!

Contributing to Missing e. browser extension for Tumblr

parkuhr:

Pretty cool stuff. Check it out!

He forked me.

I’ve never been forked before.

Neat. Parker’s proving to be pretty helpful. Especially fixing up the shitty job Google Translate did with all of the German translations in Missing e.

Someone actually making use of Missing e's code on github!

Bjorn, creator of Tumblr Saviour, Chrometaster and Tumtaster, is working on creating a Tumblr Saviour Firefox Add-On, stealing peeks at Missing e’s Firefox code for inspiration.

I, myself, am a fan of Tumblr Saviour. You can use it to specify topics you don’t want to see posts about on your dash and it’ll hide ‘em. Get it for Chrome, Safari, Opera, and if you just can’t wait for the Firefox version, you can grab the Greasemonkey userscript instead.

Good luck, Bjorn!

If anybody is interested (perhaps you want to cut your teeth on extension development or JavaScript DOM manipulation), the Missing e codebase is public. Feel free to check it out on github! For the Safari and Chrome extensions, the code is what it is. On Firefox, however, Missing e uses a pretty new (not out of beta) Mozilla SDK called Jetpack. Add-ons developed with Jetpack are easier to create (a bit more like Chrome extensions), can be installed without restarting your browser, but are only compatible with Firefox 4 and above.
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If anybody is interested (perhaps you want to cut your teeth on extension development or JavaScript DOM manipulation), the Missing e codebase is public. Feel free to check it out on github!

For the Safari and Chrome extensions, the code is what it is. On Firefox, however, Missing e uses a pretty new (not out of beta) Mozilla SDK called Jetpack. Add-ons developed with Jetpack are easier to create (a bit more like Chrome extensions), can be installed without restarting your browser, but are only compatible with Firefox 4 and above.