Github is making me feel stupid(er)
here's how I solve this problem. (ironically Chris Wanstrath, GitHub co-founder, created the technology my solution uses, and apparently did it in response to a random comment by GitHub engineer Ryan Tomayko.)<p>the tech is called dotjs. you can check it out at <a href="http://defunkt.io/dotjs" rel="nofollow">http://defunkt.io/dotjs</a>. if you use Chrome as your web browser, it runs arbitrary JavaScript you define for any domain in your ~/.js directory.<p>my ~/.js/github.com.js looks like this:<p>$("div.news").hide();<p>you can check the full file for a couple other hacks:
<a href="https://github.com/gilesbowkett/dotjsfiles/blob/master/github.com.js" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/gilesbowkett/dotjsfiles/blob/master/githu...</a><p>but that's the gist of it (no pun intended).<p>I also created a Minimal GitHub Dashboard mini-app, built in Node against the GitHub API, but when they changed the API, I didn't bother to update it. I think it was really cool though so I'll link it up anyway. it just pulled a list of your public repos and put links to them in a very readable, very minimal UI.<p><a href="http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2010/10/node-miniapp-minimal-github-dashboard.html" rel="nofollow">http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2010/10/node-miniapp-minima...</a>