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Re: Show HN: HNCute, a pretty pink Hacker News theme

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Post by caroherm » Thu, Jan 04, 2018, 3:15 PM UTC

hultner wrote: post #78

caroherm wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mostly because I'm familiar with developing Chrome extensions, and appreciate the freedom and ease of distribution. I also used a bit of Javascript to rework some of the text areas, like the bar at the top. And injecting the favicon is done in JS as well. I'll look into custom CSS extensions though! I'm not familiar with them. The repo is at https://github.com/carolinehermans/HNcute – it could definitely be organized…

Have you thought about doing a write up on how to build a extension like this for Chrome? I myself have often been thinking about building a Chrome extension but never gotten around to do it because I'm not sure where to start, something like this seems like a good scope for a first Chrome extension. Also on a side-note, I checked out your github and saw your foureyes repository, that's a really neat idea I really lo…

I've been thinking about doing a writeup, the thing that's holding me back is that there are some pretty good ones out there already, like this one (https://blog.lateral.io/2016/04/create-chrome-extension-modi...)

I'm glad you like foureyes! It was a few years before Warby Parker started doing this: (https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/07/warby-parker-recommends-...)

Re: Show HN: HNCute, a pretty pink Hacker News theme

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Post by WorldMaker » Thu, Jan 04, 2018, 4:32 PM UTC

caroherm wrote: post #18

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #2

Why is it a Chrome extension instead of just a bit of CSS in one of the many custom CSS extensions that already abound?

Mostly because I'm familiar with developing Chrome extensions, and appreciate the freedom and ease of distribution. I also used a bit of Javascript to rework some of the text areas, like the bar at the top. And injecting the favicon is done in JS as well. I'll look into custom CSS extensions though! I'm not familiar with them. The repo is at https://github.com/carolinehermans/HNcute – it could definitely be organized…

While you are at it, have you considered publishing it to the Firefox and Edge extension stores? Supposedly it is pretty easy to convert a Chrome extension to work in Firefox and Edge these days.

(I'd consider using it on Edge, for at least one user.)

Re: Show HN: HNCute, a pretty pink Hacker News theme

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Post by akras14 » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 5:10 AM UTC

danso wrote: post #62

I upvoted this like I try to do for most good effort/well-intentioned Show HN's, but I wasn't planning on installing it since I had customized my HN settings to make my HN usage as discrete as possible, with `topcolor` set to #f6f6ef (wish bodycolor was also a setting so I could just make the header and the HN body #eeeeee!). But after reading some of the other comments I decided to add the plugin and am feeling that…

Re: Show HN: HNCute, a pretty pink Hacker News theme

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Post by dufferzafar » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 3:52 PM UTC

1k2ka wrote: post #73

taspeotis wrote: post #29

Personally I find HackerNew [1] to be quite a sensible addition to the HN theme. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd...

Anyone know of a similar extension for Firefox?

If you're running FF 57, you could try https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-store-... to install chrome extensions on FF. Some work. Some don't.

Re: Show HN: HNCute, a pretty pink Hacker News theme

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Post by krapp » Sun, Jan 07, 2018, 12:39 AM UTC

I've updated my Greasemonkey plugin that makes some minor changes to HN's text layout. It unfades faded comments, highlights inline quotes (prefaced with '>') and improves readability.

It's very small and uses calls to HN's own javascript. Too small to be worth its own post but .. this seemed like a good thread to post it as a comment.

https://openuserjs.org/scripts/kennethrapp/Hacker_News_Text_...