[Web Browser UX Proposal] Bookmarks 2.0 - Load / Save "Page Snapshots" Instead of "Bookmarks"

It's been a while since I last posted anything here. Since then, the Blogger editor UX has changed a bit (and I'd say, quite detrimentally in a few key areas) making it a pain to write + post anything here. At some point, I'll likely end up converting this blog to a statically generated format, so I'll have full control over the longevity + setup of it, as that's been a recurring issue with Google properties for a while now.

Speaking of UX issues, here's a proposal for a way to solve one of the bigger issues we have with web browsers currently. Specifically, it aims to improve the usability of bookmarks, reduce the reliance on having to keep so many tabs open for certain reasons, and may also help the Internet Archive in its valiant efforts to keep on top of the endless churn of the web.

Note: While writing this, I've been considered setting up a web browser dev env to tinker with doing this myself (and probably fix several dozen other annoyances in the process) - but that's probably just holiday-mode brain trying to take on too many side projects that will have to get dropped as soon as the daily work-year grind starts up again.

Anyway, just thought I'd post this here to get a bit of visibility onto it.

"Hex to RGBA" and other Colour Conversion Tools for Sublime Text 2/3

Today I'm announcing the first release of a new plugin for Sublime Text 3 (ST2 untested, but may well be supported too, *fingers crossed*) that makes it easier to work with various colour representations in code. As anyone who spends any time working with various colour pickers and colour-related API's on different platforms knows, at some point you're going to have to convert your colours from one representation to another for some reason, and then you suddenly have to waste heaps of time converting and transcribing colour values between different representations. Clearly this can be optimised (we're using modern text editors for goodness sakes!)  So, without further ado, the plugin can be found at the following Github repo:

https://github.com/Aligorith/Hex-to-RGBA

Key Features:
* Convert Hex (i.e. #RRGGBB) color representation to a RGBA tuple (i.e. rgba(0-255, 0-255, 0-255, 0-1))
* Convert RGB(A) tuple (i.e. rgba(0-255, 0-255, 0-255, 0-1)  OR rgb(0-255, 0-255, 0-255)) to Hex (i.e. #RRGGBB)
* Convert individual colour values from 0-255 (unsigned byte) values to/from float (0.0-1.0) values
* Accessible from menus (shown in screenshot), using hotkeys (shown in screenshot too: Ctrl-Shift-R for "Convert to rgba", and Ctrl-Shift-H for "Convert to hex"), and from the command palette (Ctrl-Shift-P - I recommend searching for "hex" or "ub")

EDIT (20180215):  I've just tested it in Sublime Text 2, and it also works there. So, it's safe to say that it works on both now :)