Counting Tabs and Background Tasks: Taunting Goodharts Demon
This was going to be a really quick post yesterday, but I’ve spent the guts of a day (between actual work) just getting the simplest bit of this working. The intent I was silly enough to say this to someone recently in work: It’s a good day when I end up with fewer firefox tabs open than when I started And a plan was hatched; Find API to query Firefox for current number of open Tabs across all window instances Send that value to my internal MQTT node (that has telegraf, influx, home assistant and grafana integrations too) Repeat Spoiler alert, number 3 was the bastard ...