Ask the maintainer anything (standing thread)

[hoainho]

This is a standing open thread. Ask anything — about the extension, the architecture, the design decisions, what's hard about maintaining a Chrome extension in 2026, why I picked option X over Y in some PR review, whatever.

I'll answer everything (eventually). Response time varies — you can expect:

• Within 24h for short questions
• Within 7 days for anything that needs me to dig into code
• Within 14 days for anything requiring a design decision I want to think about

If you've waited longer than 14 days without a reply, ping me here (@hoainho friendly bump) — I drop threads sometimes.

Some example questions

To get you started, here are questions I've gotten in Slack/email that I'd love to answer publicly so others can find them:

• "Why does the extension hook into __react_devtools_global_hook__ instead of using the Profiler API?"
• "How does the AI Analysis tab actually work without me providing an OpenAI key?"
• "Why is chrome.storage.local rather than chrome.storage.session?"
• "What's the deal with the MCP server v1 spec? Is that for real?"
• "How do you decide what goes in Issues vs Discussions vs an OpenSpec change?"
• "Why TypeScript with strict: true but no ESLint?"
• "What's bippy and why did v2.0.3 align with it?"

Don't wait for a perfect question. The dumbest-feeling questions usually have the best discussion threads.

— NhoNH