An attempt at making the news feed better, cleaner, and less noisy.

github_news_feed_minimizer.user.js

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Github news feed minimizer
// @namespace    evaryont.me
// @include      https://github.com/
// @include      https://github.com/dashboard/yours
// @datecreated  2010-04-22
// @version      0.1
// @author       Colin 'Evaryont' Shea
// @license      MIT
// @description  Do many little things, but overall, make the whole page a lot better.
// ==/UserScript==

// Lazy function, w00t. Takes two parameters, a XPath expression that returns a
// series of elements, and a function (anonymous or not) to be executed for each
// element in the series.
var forEach = function(xpath, action) {
    var allElements, thisDiv;
    allElements = document.evaluate(xpath, document, null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);
    for (var i = 0; i < allElements.snapshotLength; i++) {
        action(allElements.snapshotItem(i));
    }
}

// Remove the larger avatars
forEach("//div[@class='gravatar']", function(node){
    node.parentNode.removeChild(node);
});

// Remove the grey top bar, the tabs
forEach("//ul[@class='tabs']", function(node){
    node.parentNode.removeChild(node);
});

// Left-align the individual commit messages.
// Other types of events (issues, gists, etc) are already aligned left
forEach("//div[@class='commits']/ul/li", function(node){
    node.style.marginLeft = 0;
});

// Remove the dividing lines, as well as remove the icons
forEach("//div[@class='body']", function(node){
   node.style.borderBottomWidth = 0;
   node.parentNode.setAttribute("class", "alert")
});