Chrome Extension

This week, I released an update to SE Block, the Chrome extension that removes some of the cruft from the otherwise-excellent Stack Exchange pages. I had initially struck upon the idea for the extension shortly after I started my last job. Spending a lot of time on Stack Overflow, I found myself getting distracted by whatever was trending on the rest of the network—analysis of characters in Gibson’s Bridge Trilogy? efforts to build supercapacitors using graphene sheets? mining the bowels of the English language to satisfy an itch for the perfect word choice? #relevant to this blog’s interests #productivity drain ...

Hide the cruft on Stack Overflow install it | source code developer Blocks the distracting cruft from the otherwise-excellent Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange network. The idea for the extension came about as I started my first job as a web developer and, subsequently, came to spend more and more of my day scanning Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Ask Ubuntu, and so on. I became increasingly distracted by the sidebar links, which may have had to do with all of the coffee I drink. ...