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Started building a simple tab scroller because nothing proper existed. Well, now it has workspaces, a command bar, mouse gestures, keyboard shortcuts, time-travel sessions and a side panel UI. I may have overegineered it.

@TechLayoffLover The scariest part of tech layoffs isn't the meeting invite. It's the message that never sends.

Senior architect at a major cloud player just posted in their internal Slack at 2:47 PM "Hey team, circling back on the API redesign we discussed yesterday. I think we should—" Message failed to send Slack workspace access revoked at 2:48 PM Tried to refresh. Login screen. Password doesn't work. "Account disabled, contact IT" Checked calendar. All meetings for next week gone. His name removed from the recurring architecture review. The project he's led for 8 months shows "Attendee removed by organizer" Badge tap at the parking garage. Red light. Access denied Walked to the main entrance. Same red light. Security guard won't make eye contact Phone buzzes. Email from HR timestamped 2:45 PM: "Your role has been eliminated effective immediately as part of our operational efficiency initiative" Gets home. Laptop still works but VPN won't connect. GitHub access revoked. The private repos with 3 years of his architectural decisions are gone Realizes his replacement isn't a person It's the internal AI assistant he spent 6 months training on his design patterns. Fed it his decision trees. Screen recorded his code reviews. Documented his tribal knowledge The offshore team already has his prompt library. His "irreplaceable" expertise packaged into a Claude conversation 2:47 PM: Senior architect with 12 years experience and $280k salary 2:57 PM: Unemployed with a mortgage and kids who ask why daddy came home early The knowledge extraction is complete

@thesamparr Now do this for your browser tabs

Tidy 10. At our office, once a day at 3 pm. Employees need to spend 10 minutes cleaning their workspace. If their space is clean, pick something else. We get so much done. I LOVE IT. Stole it from Rakuten company manual. Some staff told me they now do it at home. WIN.

@ThePrimeagen Because it made every image on the web slightly smaller while making every saved image slightly unusable

why does everyone hate webp?

The other half of Chrome's RAM problem: page bloat. A single news site tab loads 20-40 ad network requests and several MB of third-party JavaScript before you even read the headline. Multiply that across 15 tabs. Chrome 146 Memory Saver discards inactive tabs but doesn't touch what's inflating them. Block the bloat before it loads and suspend what you're not using — that's the real combo.

Chrome has a setting called "Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed." It's ON by default. Even after you close Chrome, it keeps processes running that eat 500MB-1GB of your RAM. Chrome -> Settings -> System -> turn this OFF. You get more RAM back for your game and a smoother gameplay

Evaluated extensively Claude Code Channels vs Remote Control vs custom bots (Claude -p). It comes down to context: → Remote Control — Full context, interactive. You drive. → Channels — Context accumulates and compacts over time. Events drive. → Custom bots — Reads curated context fresh every run. Anything drives. Variable tasks → Remote Control Reactive chains → Channels Repeatable automation → Custom bot

@jesse_makkonen Horrible doesn't even cover it. Wouldn't trade it though. Good luck with the sale!

@SuperchargeExt Haha, that'd be horrible! 😅

Solo dev discount season hits different when you know every bug fix was at 2am with no backup

Library page had 50-second average dwell time. Hid a 30-second minigame in it. Now it's over 3 minutes. Would you gamify a boring page?

@allodev CWS review for a first extension usually takes 1-3 days — if it needs host permissions for the X domain, expect the longer end. On the platform side, mass-unfollow in bursts can trigger rate limits. Spacing them out is safer than blasting through thousands.

First ever chrome extension developed 🫡 Unfollow tool for X Now waiting for review to go through 🤞

Launched a new website Fri evening: 680 pageviews and 11.8% site-to-CWS conversion so far. AI chatbots (Claude, ChatGPT) are citing the articles without me doing anything. Nine visits from AI referrals so far. Small number, but the referral path is real.

@jarredsumner The visibilityState trick is the real work. Extensions rely on it more than people think — idle detection, tab lifecycle, service worker timing all shift when the browser knows it's headless.

In the next version of Bun `Bun.WebView` programmatically controls a headless web browser in Bun

@ChromiumDev WXT handles this well. But the real MV3 pain isn't framework choice — it's service workers dying mid-operation.

Building a Chrome Extension doesn't mean you have to ditch your favorite framework. However, frameworks relying on SSR or external CDNs might hit a wall with Manifest V3's security policies. Learn how to pick the right stack for your extension → goo.gle/4uAtFlV

@tonylab_net Chrome sidebar surfacing you at 46 installs with zero spend — that's the number I'd be watching, not retention. Retention is easy to hold when the base is small. Organic distribution at that scale is harder to explain away.

The numbers don't lie. READR — my solo Chrome extension — after 4 weeks: → 46 installs → 2 uninstalls — 95.6% retention → 119 Chrome Store impressions → 57 page views → Users in US, Germany, UK, Canada, Taiwan, India → Chrome sidebar recommending organically → Zero ad

Sounds like Comet strips that setting out. Unfortunately extensions can't control panel position — it's a browser-level thing. For the tab bar at the top: same deal, no extension can hide that. In vanilla Chrome currently only vertical tabs (chrome://flags) replaces the top bar entirely. Appreciate you testing it out though — first Comet report we've gotten.

@SuperchargeExt Not available.

have you tried the comet browser yet? I completely switched to Comet like 2 weeks ago, went all in on the perplexity ecosystem for search, It’s really impressive with all their models plugged in from the start and picking the best model for each individual task.

@crsmoore It's a Chrome-level setting: chrome://settings/appearance and from there "Side panel position". Are you trying it out with Comet? Interested in the results

@SuperchargeExt Tried it out. Can't figure out how to get it on the left side. It's stuck on the right.

@crsmoore Haven't tested it in Comet yet, only Chrome and Chromium-based browsers. If Comet supports the side panel API it should work. Worth a try

@SuperchargeExt Does this work reliably in Comet? superchargebrowser.com/navigation/

Shipped a website Friday-Saturday night. 72 hours later: 385 visitors from 49 countries. Google already indexing. ChatGPT and Claude both sending traffic. Someone in Korea found an article, read the whole thing, and installed our Chrome extension. A page that didn't exist 3 days ago. No cookies. No third-party scripts. $0/month. What are you tracking with?

@MandeepBuilds congrats on the second one. the jump from first to second is way faster because you already know the CWS workflow. what framework are you using?

Just shipped my 2nd Chrome extension 🚀 Built Screenshort Annotation — quickly capture screenshots & annotate them without leaving your browser. Perfect for devs, designers & async teams. 👉 Try it: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/screens… Shipping fast. Learning faster. Building in public.