68 points speckx 3 days ago 15 comments

ckx 1 hour ago | parent

This is so useless yet so cool!

SugarReflex 59 minutes ago | parent

It doesn't do anything for shareholder value, but I love it.

bethekidyouwant 54 minutes ago | parent

Unless you make ram

triclops200 56 minutes ago | parent

"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.

drfloyd51 56 minutes ago | parent

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.

paid_dot_expert 49 minutes ago | parent

It also creates a human feedback loop. It will train you to instinctively not keep old tabs open as you need to deal with the plants.

johnea 41 minutes ago | parent

Why would you not want to keep them open?

iugtmkbdfil834 14 minutes ago | parent

Resource conservation ( memory ), attention conservation ( focus, change for additional distractions ) come to mind.

tamimio 52 minutes ago | parent

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.

makmanalp 8 minutes ago | parent

sheep.exe was not useless, I loved it. you take that back.

b33l 50 minutes ago | parent

I like to throw cress seeds into unattended keyboards

paid_dot_expert 49 minutes ago | parent

Cress is a word I haven't heard in decades. Got to get some cress!

asphodele 25 minutes ago | parent

Classic joke at university was to sprinkle cress seeds on the carpet of someone's room and water it with a fine mist from a plant sprayer. In the morning the inhabitant would wake up to a neat lawn that had appeared overnight by magic.

johnea 43 minutes ago | parent

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...

sublinear 38 minutes ago | parent

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