https://newschematic.org/tags/se-block/Recent content in Se Block on New SchematicHugoen-usChristopher Boette, CC by-sa-ncSun, 28 Jun 2015 14:47:43 +0000https://newschematic.org/blog/se-block-gets-an-update/Sun, 28 Jun 2015 14:47:43 +0000https://newschematic.org/blog/se-block-gets-an-update/<p>This week, I released an update to <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/se-block/ffpkepieaocfchmcokenleighplnifjh" target="_blank">SE Block</a>, 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 <a href="http://gamesalad.com" target="_blank">my last job</a>. 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</p>