I Built a Chrome Extension in 5 Minutes Instead of Searching for One
Things that used to be hard - like learning to build a Chrome extension - are now a few minutes away. So I built TabGrabber instead of hunting the web store for something I could trust.
I started to look for a Chrome extension and realized it'd just be faster to build my own. In < 5m I made TabGrabber.
My workflow recently has resulted in me opening WAYYYY too many GitHub PR tabs that were duplicates from the terminal.
I knew I used to have an extension that would find an existing open tab if you tried to open the same one but who knows what it was called and which options on the Chrome Web Store I could trust.
Then I remembered Claude Code (or Codex, or ...) can just make these. It wrote the code in 30 seconds, gave me the instructions that I could use to install it in a couple more.
Gotta relearn that some things that used to be hard like learning how to make Chrome extensions are potentially a few minutes away.
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