Upgrading GitHub by using Pierre's diffs and trees

Name: Upgrading GitHub by using Pierre's diffs and trees
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Author: clementg

by clementg·May 27, 2026·1 point·0 comments

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AI Analysis

●MidSolve My Problem

Faster GitHub diffs via Pierre, but you're just wrapping someone else's components in an extension.

Strengths

•Tree-of-diffs PR view with per-file 'Viewed' toggles actually improves large PR navigation.
•Works on private repos by fetching diffs through background worker with session cookies.
•Toggle bar flips between Pierre and native GitHub without leaving the page.

Weaknesses

•Zero technical novelty—this is a thin wrapper around diffs.com and trees.software.
•Depends entirely on Pierre's infrastructure; if they change APIs, this extension breaks.

Post Description

Github is famously slow for diffs, which can sometime cause issues for huge PRs (i.e.: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/12291/changes) We can try making the experience better by replacing the content directly inside Github by diffs.com and trees.software, making it easy and fast to load huge PRs, diffs, commits, compares, comments, for public and private repos This is directly inspired by the amazing demo from the Pierre team at https://diffshub.com