So why did I start creating Userscripts?
Everywhere I go on the internet, there’s always some part of my experience that felt… lacking.
I’m a proud LibreWolf user. But using such a browser, with all its privacy functions, comes with a price. What initially started me on my Tampermonkey Userscript making journey was that part of my Canvas didn’t load and render properly, and I couldn’t access nor complete any affected assignments because of that.
So I made my first Userscript, “MyOpenMath Assignment Fixer for Canvas“, using Google Gemini. I vibecoded it because, quite frankly, I don’t know how to code in JavaScript quite yet, nor have I ever tried vibecoding up to this point, so I was curious as to what it could do. And it served me well.
I think it’s important to note that all of these Userscripts that I’ve made weren’t just “oh, I can just give AI a small prompt and it’ll do everything I’m thinking of”, no. All of the Userscripts that I made took hours upon hours of my time going back and forth, conversing with AI to get it to code exactly what I wanted, to a tee. Some of the Userscripts took days‘ worth of this process.
After my second finished project, I realized that Google Gemini was falling short of the quality that I desired from a vibecoded Userscript. It never really got right what I wanted it to do, and most of the time, when I wanted something added or an existing feature edited, I’d see an already existing, already well-working feature become broken because Google Gemini would decide to screw around with that part of the program even when it was completely separate from what I was asking it to do.
So I switched to Claude, and I successfully made what I personally feel is the coolest feature that one could add to Google Drive: a browser-native Media Player. This project stemmed from my desire to simply have a Media Player in Google Drive that wasn’t external, and also one that didn’t need any unnecessary logins or access requests for one’s Google account. It took two days of back-and-forth brainstorming, testing, and bug fixing, but the “Media Player for Google Drive” was complete, and fully functional alongside any Google Drive tab on PC.
