Backchannel

Continuing to work on WorkspaceOS (https://tryworkspaceos.com) in semi-stealth. Smaller recent side projects: (1) Backchannel (https://github.com/twalichiewicz/Backchannel) -- A userscript that adds Hacker News, Bluesky, Reddit, & other's discussions into a single blended discussion thread to any site you visit. I've added lots of features (including a new blended homepage) since the original post, nI've been working on turning it into a working example of Webmentions & Web Annotations. Original Show HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090607 (2) Typing Tennis (https://typingtennis.com) -- Tennis, but typing. You type two words: one to reposition yourself and another to return a hit. Playable against CPUs or friends, as well as a daily challenge mode. Original Show HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695492

Thanks again for the feedback everyone! I've made quite a few improvements from the original version over the past few days, but unfortunately the OG version I released didn't specify the @updateURL or @downloadURL so you may not automatically get updated if you installed when I first posted this. And as always, if you find any bugs or have any additional feedback, please report at https://github.com/twalichiewicz/HNewhere/issues

I modified the script to start collapsed. Code is in this issue if you would like to try it: https://github.com/twalichiewicz/HNewhere/issues/5

Yep, looking into it. https://github.com/twalichiewicz/HNewhere/issues/2

Crunched a bit and got a first pass of this working. https://github.com/twalichiewicz/HNewhere/releases/tag/v1.4.... You can test with https://www.apple.com/iphone/

HN is great for the links people share, but a big part of the value I get comes from reading the discussion around them. I realized I was always opening the article in one tab and the comments in another, constantly switching back and forth. I figured there was probably a simpler way, so I threw together this userscript to merge the two. 1. Clicking a link from Hacker News opens the article with a side panel containing the discussion. It doesn't require your credentials, is resizable, and is easy to tweak if you want to customize it. 2. If you land on an article that has previously been shared on HN, the script finds the existing discussion and adds a button in the top-right to open the panel. Feedback welcome.