What is this all about?

Millions of people use scripts. Thousands of scripts are broken or don’t quite do what a user wants them to do. I fix scripts—it’s one of the things I do and I’m pretty good at it.

On occasion, people have asked me, or I have volunteered, to fix a Greasemonkey script for the Firefox browser. Usually this happens when the original script author is not responding to support inquiries, or declines to make a change. But Greasemonkey isn’t everything, I have fixed regular JavaScript scripts that have nothing to do with monkeys, real or virtual. In response to a need for improved copyediting, I created a user script for Wikipedia that a few editors use. I even edited Perl scripts once or twice, though I am far from being an expert Perl programmer.

This process has happened often enough that I decided to start a blog dedicated to the task. Here I can more easily give or take feedback on scripts that need correction, tweaking, modification, or enhancement, and link to scripts I modify and write. As long as a script isn’t restricted to disallow public redistribution, it’s fair game. Since most scripts are released under an open source license or to the public domain, this should not be much of a problem.

I also write new scripts. You can find those posted on the userscripts.org site, or my domain website.