I've been wanting to experiment with building a Google Chrome extension for a while. I've also been wanting a shortcut to get to GitHub repositories quickly. So tonight I figured out how to build a Chrome extension (pretty darn simple) and built a very basic initial version of Octochrome.
This extension doesn't do much yet, and uses the deprecated GitHub API V2, but it's useful for my needs right now and was a fun experiment. I plan to rewrite the UI using DataTables.
You can install it here, and if you are so inclined, please fork the extension and make it less crappy!