If you pin the extension in the toolbar, there's an option to "disable" the extension. The floating popup goes away and using the extension to summarize still works.
Learning coding is still valuable for the same reason knowing basic arithmetic is useful. You technically don't need to know how to add, subtract, multiply and divide since a calculator can do it better, but even so it's still an incredibly useful skill. I think coding is the same way.
Now, is software engineering still a viable long term career option? Honestly, probably not (to be fair, I think most white collar jobs will be significantly automated away anyways). But if it's something you're genuinely interested in, I'd say you should still give it a shot.
DNS-level blocking is worse than the MV3-compatible uBO Lite.
It can't block ads coming from 1st party domains, it can't do cosmetic filtering, it can't work with shims to prevent the breakage of websites, and it's easily detected and circumvented.
Focal is a pomodoro web app. I know there's a lot of productivity apps already, but I'm releasing this since I figure someone might find it useful. Focal was more of a short, 3 day project so it may be rough around the edges, but I think it does the job. In any case, Focal is open source and I would be happy to merge contributions.
I build a youtube video downloader. I was under the impression that figuring this out would be extremely difficult but with ressources online, it was surprisingly easy. I got a basic downloader down in less than [200 lines](https://gist.github.com/aabiji/c65254af440b1bb53149b2d6a9faf...)!