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Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs

129 points • by speckx • last Thursday at 3:52 PM • 38 comments • view on HN

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drfloyd51 • yesterday at 10:06 PM

This isn’t as useless as it seems. It is a visual representation of how old the tab is. And I control what “old” is.

To put it another way, it helps me recognize which tabs I am using. And which I am saving for later without having to evaluate the content of the tab.

One tweak… the coverage percentage can it be adjustable? Max = 100% looses all information about the pages contents, except the title.

Also also… if the images can be made translucent… you can make old timey effects like yellowing and decay.

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ramboldio • yesterday at 11:07 PM

Related work: Trello allows 'aging' for tasks. One can set them to become more transparent over time or turn into stained 'pirate' paper.

https://trello.com/power-ups/55a5d917446f517774210012

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triclops200 • yesterday at 10:06 PM

"Originally, I was thinking about blocking users from closing their overgrown tabs until they slash all plants, but I thought it would be too annoying... " I would ask that you please add this as an option :), might actually use it for that feature alone because I do accidentally close old tabs by accident without noticing that was meaning to keep open.

alanning • yesterday at 11:44 PM

Fun project, but I also really liked the way she came up with it:

I was doing a little creative exercise the other day around the word "Overgrowth”…

Is this a common thing in the creative space? Seems like a fun activity

jasonpeacock • today at 12:16 AM

People who keep tabs open too long are the same as those who store files in the system trash.

At some point it’ll get flushed and you’ll only have yourself to blame…

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Dwedit • today at 12:41 AM

I just use a tab suspender, I prefer having RAM over having something cute.

profsummergig • yesterday at 11:54 PM

Chrome's "tab group" feature is awesome and it ended my issue with unaddressed and open tabs. It even works on Chrome for Android mobile.

b33l • yesterday at 10:12 PM

I like to throw cress seeds into unattended keyboards

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ckx • yesterday at 9:58 PM

This is so useless yet so cool!

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5- • yesterday at 11:30 PM

almost completely off-topic, but the demo video very heavy reminded me of http://www.traumagame.com/

sublinear • yesterday at 10:24 PM

> Just for fun, you can pick your weapon of choice between the rusty machete, the chainsaw and the flamethrower.

BLKNSLVR • yesterday at 11:14 PM

Need more of this kind of fun!

bbor • today at 12:00 AM

Woah, my interests! Anyone have any tips or favorite projects to share from procedural vine/flora generation? It's a fascinating space, and this extension seems to do surprisingly convincing job of it

johnea • yesterday at 10:19 PM

I like it!

I have a ton of these tabs. I don't consider them "neglected" though.

Some things take years to come to fruition. You can't just go buy them at home despot.

Maybe younger people don't yet have an appreciation for things that assume an air of legacy and heritage after many years of "just sitting there".

When finally re-visited, they have a meaning that can only accumulate with the passage of significant time...

tamimio • yesterday at 10:10 PM

These useless programs are like what you used to see back in win98 or winxp with dancing monkey or scoopydoo walking all over your desktop windows, which I think later turned to human dancers before being used to distribute all sort of viruses.

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firstdib • yesterday at 11:57 PM

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