Developer Excuses WebExtension

Overrides your new tabs with a random developer excuse over a beautiful photo background. Made with ❤

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A Firefox/Chrome/Edge extension that overrides your new tabs with a random developer excuse over a beautiful photo background.

Available at:

• Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/animated-developer-excuses/
• Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/developer-excuses/cgaodmejhjnnjkbbakfmbhojjgfdgeni?hl=en-US

Features

• Periodically refresh the background image from Unsplash
• Periodically refresh the quote from Developer Excuses
• Animate the background image with Ken Burns effect

Getting started

You can build this project using macOS or Linux.

Install

1. Install NodeJS
2. Install dependencies

   npm i -D

Configure

Specify the URL of your Unsplash API proxy:

export REACT_APP_UNSPLASH_API_ENDPOINT=https://unsplash-api-proxy.appspot.com

Build

npm run build

Run

npm start

Want more?

Developer Excuses screen saver for macOS

Acknowledgements

This software is made with the support of open source projects:

• NodeJS
• React
• Create React App
• Material UI
• Unsplash
• kenburns
• rect-crop
• ESLint
• Stylelint
• Enzyme
• web-ext

... and closed source services:

• CircleCI
• SonarCloud