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87 tabs open. I can't close any of them.

DEV Community·Alexander Logach·27 days ago
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I built a Chrome extension to help with this — and I refuse to ship it the way everyone else does. I open Chrome. There are 87 tabs. I can't close any of them. Not one. That Stack Overflow answer I'll definitely come back to. That Medium article was half-read at 2am. That GitHub issue someone tagged me on three weeks ago. That MDN page about the Intersection Observer API. The Anthropic cookbook example I bookmarked in my head, but not in my bookmarks. The Twitter thread about a font I might use in a future project. The Reddit post about ADHD productivity tools — especially that one. 87 tabs. Each of them is a "later" I made with myself, and now I can't break the contract. If you're reading this and nervously nodding — welcome to the club. There are a lot more of us than you'd think. This isn't laziness. It's measurable. In 2021, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University did the first major study in 20 years on how people actually behave with browser tabs.…

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