Cognitive Tools•2023
Quiet Viewport
Salience-Dampening Web Reader & Cognitive Filter
The Cognitive Challenge
The modern web has become a hostile sensory minefield of attention traps, making deep technical reading nearly impossible.
The Calm Solution
Engineered an aggressive readability parser that preserves code blocks and semantic diagrams while neutralizing engagement algorithms.
Measurable Impact
Over 28,000 active installations across Chrome and Firefox stores.
Key Innovations
- Heuristic neutralizer that replaces sensationalist adjectives with objective factual nouns
- Total removal of sticky fixed headers, floating chat widgets, and newsletter slide-ins
- Typography reset to warm Newsreader serif with comfortable 68ch line lengths
WebExtensions APITypeScriptCSS ContainmentReadability Engine