✨ Finally, some positive excitement! ✨
I went on a tiny mission last night to build something I wanted for myself. I was inspired by seeing a space theme on someone's browser in a tutorial and thinking, "I am a developer, I want a cool browser!"
🔎 What I Found
It just so happens that space is generally my favorite theme. Feeling inspired, I found a cool theme in the chrome store. I generally avoid extensions but was feeling strongly about this one.
Between Google chromes sidebar/group coloring and the space background, I was starting to feel more at home. But that was just the beginning.
👷♀️ What I Did
Then I remembered my chaotic array of bookmarks. I really wanted to manage them better, with nested folders and groups, as is the tried and true method in general. There were a few options available on the chrome webstore, but nothing that was truly motivating.
I wanted to hold onto a space/cyberpunk theme so I would love it. Using Claude Opus 5.5 I was able to get the extension loaded and bookmarks organized quickly. I was shocked at the sheer speed I was able to pull this off. Within that same time frame, I realized I had gained a tremendous amount of space at the bottom of my bookmarks organizer. What is this foreign land? 😂 I thought to myself It would be really cool if I had a ticker with updates from sources that matter to me.
Connecting Ticker Feeds
- I had Claude pull data from DEV from my notifications, and the same method 'unofficially' works for linked in.
- I added a server activity ticker. I had already implemented a traffic analysis tool prior, building off of Goaccess server logs and fail2ban. So this was an easy setup. That being the case I still learned about
symlink(symbolic links) which is a special pointer that references another drive or partition on another device. So cool! I always wanted that! 😂 So I fed my server notifications to my browser ticker with a symlink. - To see recent sales on my store, I simply integrated stripe with a heavily restricted API key. This helps ensure I can act quickly for a customer. This pairs well with my discord notification bot. I am usually in my browser or in discord, so no excuses! 😂
Originally a tabbed interface, I switched it to a stacked layer view so I can see updates in real time with a glance. I LOVE that.
Beautifully nested folders in a cyberpunk UI with drag-and-drop and label editing, a personalized ticker, and a space background! I am feeling much more in the element and overall please with the situation. I will undoubtedly add more tickers for interesting things as I go through time. But this is a fabulous improvement.
What cool browser creations have you made? Please share below!
I have a template repo up for anyone that might be interested. (If you find it useful could you leave me a star? 😂)
I made sure I templated the project this time and added an MIT license. I think I covered everything this time? +1 XP? 🤣
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cyber-bookmarks
A much cooler way to keep track of the information you deem important right in the chrome browser.
NEURAL//LINKS — Cyberpunk Bookmarks
A neon side-panel bookmark manager for Chrome, with an optional Signal Feed that pulls in your LinkedIn and dev.to notifications, Stripe sales, and security alerts from your own Linux server.
Features
- Bookmarks in the side panel. Drag to reorder, drop onto a folder to nest it, and group items into folders with Ctrl/Shift+click and then ⧉ GROUP (Ctrl+G). Right-click an item for more options.
- Full-screen view. Click ⤢ to open the same tree in a tab.
- Signal Feed. It checks every 5 minutes and shows new items as a badge count on the toolbar icon. It can also send desktop alerts.
- Your real bookmarks. It edits Chrome's own bookmarks, so changes sync wherever Chrome sync does.
Install the extension
- Download or clone this repo.
- Open
chrome://extensionsand turn on Developer mode (top right). - Click Load unpacked and select the project folder (the one with
manifest.json). - …
Generally, to get this effect, I had to build on top of Googles pre-existing bookmarks since that cannot be changed. So this bookmarks interface is an extension that build on top of what already exists - not a replacement. This is a solid way to manage things in a lightweight manner.
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