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My wife never clicked the links I sent her. So I built a Chrome extension to fix it.
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My wife never clicked the links I sent her. So I built a Chrome extension to fix it.

I send my wife random links all the time. But instead of clicking them, her reply is almost always: "What is this?"

Honestly, it’s a bit of a buzzkill. But when we talked about it, she made a fair point: a raw URL with zero context feels like homework. You don't know if it's a 10-minute read or a jump scare. Nobody likes naked links.

I tried manually copying page titles and pasting URLs, but as a frontend dev, I hate repetitive manual tasks. So I wrote a script to fix my own communication flow.

It’s calledCopy Page Title and URL Pro.

Just hit Ctrl+Shift+P (or Cmd+Shift+P), and it instantly copies the page title and a clean URL to your clipboard. It automatically strips out all that ugly ?utm_ tracking garbage.

Since I live in Jira and Notion, I also baked in Markdown/HTML support. You can even highlight a quote, hit a shortcut, and bundle the quote + title + link in one go.

It’s completely free, open-source, and runs 100% locally with zero tracking.

Best of all: my wife actually clicks my links now.

If you’re tired of mystery URLs, give it a try. Would love to hear your feedback!

u/Melodic-Middle-4265 — 9 days ago
▲ 1 r/programmatic+1 crossposts

I got tired of manually decoding nested URL params and JSON payloads, so I built a purely client-side visualizer.

Hey everyone,

Whenever I deal with complex tracking links, DSP macros, or deeply nested redirect URLs, pasting them into standard decoders or the browser console is a mess.

To solve this, I built Query Params Viewer.

It’s a simple, single-file frontend tool that automatically expands and decodes nested URLs up to 3 levels deep. It also flags duplicate keys (useful for server-side array behaviors) and pretty-prints JSON payloads on the fly.

Key points:

  • Zero backend. Everything is parsed locally in your browser (privacy-first).
  • Handles hash routes (#/path?a=1) and bare query strings.
  • Generates shareable links (state is kept in the # fragment, never sent to a server).

It’s completely free and has no dependencies. I'd love to hear your feedback or if you run into any edge cases I missed!

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u/Melodic-Middle-4265 — 21 days ago