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Hope we all survive this winter.

6/ This now got me thinking, is it time to abandon Windows, move to Linux instead? What about my precious steam games? I have been in Mac and Windows for too long, haven't really used Linux desktop for many years, what is your suggestion? in terms of like distro, terminal, editor etc.

5/ On the design/ui side, I still need to tweak a few settings to make PNL Reader look better on mobile. But it’ll be finished soon. Stay tuned!

4/ But long story short, I finally got it working by forking the final build of the add-on to a Windows path and running web-ext directly on Windows to connect to my Android device via ADB. The workflow is still a bit broken, though.

3/ Third thing, maybe the most frustrating issue is that most of the documentation for setting up the development flow on Windows is outdated. The screenshots are misleading, the text is conflicting with each other, which made AI chatbots pretty useless in this case.

2/ If I run web-ext directly on Windows, try to compile the project located in WSL, web-ext can’t recognize WSL’s odd folder naming in file paths, which is another rabbit hole.

1/ Here’s what I ran into: 1. The ADB proxy in WSL through the Windows host doesn’t work. I mean the ADB proxy in WSL, which is supposed to forward Android connections through the Windows host, web-ext doesn’t support at all, so there’s no direct way to communicate with Android from inside WSL.