Its because the guys who made this are actually a visual novel engine development group

No fun not ever

In any case it distracts from the actual subject

Sounds like this fits with any kind of shape, color or combination of those (read as: logo) in any README.md that has one ... I wouldn't interpret too much into it.

Also, the big eyes form a supernormal stimulus [1]. As such it is "hacking" into the brain of the viewer.

Oh, come on, that’s just the typical anime/manga style. You criticism applies equally to any software which has an attractive person as its icon as that would supernormally “hack” your brain as well. I see nothing about that drawing that is confusing.

This is just anime. Well it seems like you just don't understand us asians.

Sure, its not for everyone. To each their own.

Firebug has gone full circle.

This is pretty neat but what's the use case? I'm struggling to see it

Edit: nevermind, I guess it's to make it easier to develop for mobile, no need to connect the phone using USB anymore

The website is actually a really nice demo of what’s possible with this. https://eruda.liriliri.io/

The alternative would be to something like a browser extension. I don’t know if Safari on iOS supports extensions but I think Firefox does. Just create a wrapper extension that injects this code into the current page you are on.

Oh yeah, I'm not sure how I missed that. Bookmarked that now.

to use on iOS you need to embed it in the source of your page, because iOS doesn't let you execute JS from the address bar. On Android you can use it to view pages without embedding it into the source of your page.

Reminds me of Weinre, though it’s very old now:

https://people.apache.org/~pmuellr/weinre/docs/latest/

This is impressive!

I wrote a much less impressive bookmarklet editor[0] (years ago) that can also be appended[1] to a mobile page for debugging purposes (note, it doesn't work on, eg, HN, because scripts are blocked by CSP).

[0] https://gabrielsroka.github.io/webpages/bookmarklets.htm

[1]

  javascript:(function () {
      var u = "https://gabrielsroka.github.io/webpages/scripts/";
      var s = document.body.appendChild(document.createElement("script"));
      s.src = u + "js.js";
      s.onload = function () {
          loadScript(u + "bookmarklets.js", function () {
              editor();
              onload();
          });
      };
  }
  )();

To be a little meta: https://gabrielsroka.github.io/webpages/bookmarklets.htm?scr...