What I Built

GitHub Issue Focus is a Chrome extension that hides noisy, automated timeline events on GitHub issues - project shuffles, label churn, assignment ping-pong, and other bot-generated chatter.

If you’ve got lots of automation, projects, and/or overly enthusiastic labeling colleagues ಠ_ಠ, you know exactly what I mean. Here it is in action...

Why I Built It

I like my GitHub issues the way I like my sandwiches: simple.
No mustard. No mayo. No garnish. No oils. No green stuff. I don’t need five pages of updates showing something moving from Done to Complete and back again.

I’m rarely interested in who applied a label, reassigned an issue, or shuffled it between projects. I care far more about vertical real estate and skimability.

The extension trims the fat so the signal stands out - without removing important context like cross-references or closed/reopened events. Everything is configurable - hide what you don’t care about, keep what you do.

It works for me - and hopefully anyone drowning in over-automated issues <3

My Experience with GitHub Copilot CLI

TL;DR: This was built in under five minutes - and worked out of the gate!

I’ve built a few Chrome extensions before, so I roughly know the territory. That said, I essentially asked Copilot CLI to create this, pasted in some HTML with the offending markup, and was explicit about what should be configurable.

I used Copilot CLI to:

Scaffold the Chrome extension structure

Sanity-check manifest.json for MV3 correctness

Generate and refine DOM selectors for GitHub’s issue timeline

Speed up repetitive config and test setup

The biggest win was momentum. Instead of context-switching to docs or Stack Overflow, I stayed in flow - asking Copilot CLI things like "hide GitHub issue timeline events added to project" and iterating from there.

It didn’t replace thinking... but it absolutely replaced yak shaving.

Check it out and give it a ⭐️