Stack Exchange

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 ...

Since I can’t upvote the question or answer, I thought I’d just give a shout-out to this question on unix.stackexchange.com. To delete duplicate rows from a CSV file using the command line: awk -F, '!seen[$0]++' inputfile.csv > outputfile.csv Fantastic.

Block all of that distracting sidebar stuff in the otherwise excellent Stack Exchange network. My first Chrome extension. Which I suppose isn’t anything to get excited about because of its simplicity, but it should help me focus. [goto](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/se-block/ffpkepieaocfchmcokenleighplnifjh)