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[โ€“] Redkey@programming.dev 57 points 1 day ago (1 children)

JS has saved me many hours of mind-numbing, error-prone manual keyboard work by giving me a way to hack together a simple bit of automation as a web page.

Even when a computer has been ham-fistedly locked-down by an overzealous IT department, I can almost always still access a text editor and a browser that will load local HTML files.

[โ€“] mirshafie@europe.pub 24 points 1 day ago

Add to that the beauty of bookmarklets.

It's silly that IT departments forces us to resort to techniques used before browser extensions became a thing, and it's ironic that it's because they don't know how to code, but here we are.