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You'll be able to use the vertical scroll wheel to scroll horizontally.

For now, you can press the left and right arrow keys or shift-left and shift-right to jump by column.

Columnary is a Chrome extension that makes full use of your screen real estate, whether it's a small screen laptop or a 5K monitor. It strips ads and formatting, and puts everything into columns in a horizontally scrolling format. This way, articles can fill 100% of your screen while keeping line lengths readable.

This transforms the way your brain processes articles. When you can see the whole thing at once, you can utilise your natural spatial processing ability to make sense of where you are.

Columnary also includes a bookmark feature so you can mark your place when stepping away from long articles, and various typography settings and a full screen mode, as well as keyboard shortcuts to help you scroll by column.

Source code is at https://github.com/kevinwuwon/columnary

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49327395

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# Comments: 4

The ampersand method in the OP video (and the sibling slipped-lapp-knot comment) is needlessly complicated. Just follow this super simple animation instead (except pass a bight in the last step to make it quick-release).

The Lapp knot (aka. lapp bend) is my favourite of all the knots and very underrated. It's so versatile and simple, even simpler to tie than a square knot. As shown in the OP, it can be tightened and loosened and explodes when you pull the tag rather than leaving the half-knot behind. It is my default way to tie two ropes together.

Regular engineers could use stacked diffs proficiently and regularly, without it being seen as a super advanced 10x engineer power user thing.

Google’s dinky browser based Cider was cute but Facebook in its transition from Atom to VS Code was far ahead. Google might have invented asynchronous web based code review with Mondrian and Critique, but Facebook’s Diff was better with its stacked diff support. Google’s Buganizer was outdated and clunky compared to Facebook’s Tasks.

I left Facebook the year after but I do wonder where Meta’s tooling is up to nowadays. Is it still a glimpse of the future?

If I wasn’t so attuned to agent slop, I’d be thinking I’m just too dumb to get it but no, whatever GPT model wrote this is not good enough (and the fact this was published by OpenAI suggests this is not an operator skill issue).

I can share the code if there's interest.

Sometimes it doesn't split it among optimal boundaries, but it's usually good enough to help. There's probably room for improvement and extension (eg. re-splitting a branch containing many not-logical commits, moving changes between commits, merging commits, ...) – contributions welcome!

You can install it as a Claude Code plugin here: https://github.com/KevinWuWon/kww-claude-plugins (or just copy out the prompt from the repo into your agent of choice)

Arbitrary structure rules like "do_thing_a(); do_thing_b(); do_thing_c();" also is not unless you can explain how this helps make it easier to understand compared to say, one big function with "// DO THING A" comments.