A small Chrome extension I made
April 7, 2023 project 2 min read
How many of you read at least one interesting article/blog every day? I go to Hacker News frequently and read something.
The idea
But on some days, I forget to open Hacker News or Reddit. So that’s where I had an idea. “I wondered: what if I could just see articles listed on my browser homepage?”
So this is what I did. I knew a bit about how to create Chrome extensions from previous experience
where I had to sum up all story points shown in a JQL (Jira Query Language). After some googling,
I understood how to override the new tab in Chrome. Then I wrote a simple JS scraping script that
extracted all 30 articles from the Hacker News front page.
The build
After some HTML/CSS/JS sessions, I implemented a simple article list, a theme switcher, and a
simple loader that shows after the user clicks on any link. Here is a small video that shows what the Chrome
extension looks like.
The result
After hacking for 2 days, I am really happy with how it turned out. And the main goal of reading more articles daily was definitely achieved by this extension. If you want to install it, go to Chrome Extension Link
[2026-04-18]: I’ve also added features to switch between 8 themes, save bookmarks, and adjust font size.
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