Make the websites you use less annoying

I have been using userscripts more lately, and they feel worth mentioning because LLMs make them much easier to reach for.

I do not mean polished browser extensions or big personal automation systems. I mean small scripts for small annoyances, like a layout that wastes too much space, a button that is always in the way or a page that breaks when casting video to my TV. Something that works almost fine but is annoying for my browser, monitor, or habits.

Userscripts have existed forever, but making one still meant inspecting the page, figuring out what the app was doing, writing the script, testing it, and remembering whichever browser API I needed. Not hard, exactly, but enough work that I usually did not bother.

LLMs remove a lot of that friction. They can write the boring parts of the code, help find a usable selector, explain enough of a minified page to get started, and revise the script quickly when the site changes.

For as much as LLMs have taken from us, I like finding the small places where they still make room for creative work. The friction moved. Some things feel worse now, but tiny personal tools feel more possible.

I have a handful of these scripts now. Some tweak video pages. Some help with language-learning sites. Some are basically CSS with a tiny wrapper around them. A few watch app state and nudge things back when the site gets weird. They are not products, and they are not worth publishing as extensions. They only need to work for me.

That is the part I like. Personal scripts can be ugly. They can target one browser, assume my screen size, break next month, and get deleted.

If this is not something you have tried in a while, it might be worth trying on the next site that bothers you. Just one small fix: hide something, resize something, remember one setting, move one control, change one default.