Andreas Kling
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🌅 recovering addict 🐞 building @ladybirdbrowser 💕 @KatalinKult
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I'm proud to introduce the Ladybird Browser Initiative, a nonprofit founded by myself and
@defunkt
to develop a truly independent, open source web browser, free of corporate influence! 🤓🐞
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Looking at this file from WebKit may change how you think about web browsers 😅
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github users really have websites like this and don't see any issue
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The SerenityOS Browser now passes the Acid3 test! 🥳🐞🌍
AFAIK we're the first new open source browser to reach this milestone since the test originally came out.
This has been a team effort over the last couple of weeks, and I'm so proud of everyone who contributed! 🤓❤️
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2000 days clean and sober!! 🌞🙏
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I have received a $100,000 sponsorship specifically for Ladybird browser development! 🤓🐞🌍
More details to come..
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Dear
@discord
, how on earth is "gtk" a bad word?
GTK is a GUI toolkit used by tons of desktop applications on Linux (
@GTKtoolkit
)
In fact, even your own Linux client uses it!
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programmers really have websites like this and don't see any issue
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web developers really have personal websites like this and don't see any issue
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We've had some instances of kids forking the SerenityOS codebase and "making their own OS" by doing a search&replace on "SerenityOS" and my name.
I did the exact same thing as a young teenager, and it's so dang adorable to grow up and have the kids do the same thing to me! 🥲💻
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We've been evaluating a number of C++ successor languages for
@ladybirdbrowser
, and the one best suited to our needs appears to be
@SwiftLang
🪶
Over the last few months, I've asked a bunch of folks to pick some little part of our project and try rewriting it in the different
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*walks into open source project*
"I need you to change your license, your code hosting, and your discussion platform."
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Companies prohibiting employees from working on open source in their free time is 100% bullshit and a strong reason to walk away from big tech IMO.
Terrible look here for IBM. How dare this employee contribute code to... an IBM driver? 🙄
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In a surprising twist, I have just received a second $100,000 sponsorship for Ladybird development! 🤯🐞🌍
This one came in the form of an anonymous cryptocurrency donation, so now I need to talk to my tax accountant ASAP and figure out what to do.. 😅
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I really have a website like this and don't see any issue
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A programmer should be able to parse a language, review a patch, optimize a database query, make a website, secure a server, debug without sources, write an exploit, grep a log file, build a kernel, write a manual, run efficiently, crash gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
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Dear
@X
, please don't filter based on User-Agent headers! Use JavaScript feature detection so we can see what APIs you need.
We're building a new browser (
@ladybirdbrowser
), and we'd prefer not to lie about our identity just to get the real content from you. 🤓🐞🌍
cc
@ehikian
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being a linux user means that every few days you must update 30 packages. even if nothing new was released, your distro will manifest 30 new updates for you to download. all must update
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TIL that "kebab-case" is a thing and it's delightful how the word immediately makes sense when you see it 🤓🍢
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"Nobody really knows what they're doing" is a cope that will keep you mediocre forever.
There are absolutely people who know what they are doing.
My advice to young folks in any field: seek out these people, and put yourself in a situation where you can learn from them.
For
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UTF-16 was a teenage mistake in the 1990s and we're all still paying for the child support.
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Browsers should never inject content. Their job is to present the web to the user as-is.
(The user may choose to install extensions that modify content, but the browser itself should never do this.)
Browsers that do this cannot be trusted.
This is a big overstep by Microsoft imo
They are injecting ads *into the Google Chrome download page* pushing their own browser 🫠
This should not be ok
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Spotify circa 2010 was so beautiful 🤩🎧
The information density.. the pixel-perfect layouts.. and super responsive even on my crappy laptop at the time!
I gush over Y2K software aesthetics a lot, but seeing old Spotify desktop clients gives me similar fuzzy feelings 🤩
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Some folks have asked why I’m not active on Mastodon.
Simple answer: I like it here. X is full of positive energy and “let’s build!”
Meanwhile, Mastodon is full of negative energy and “stuff sucks and it’s someone else’s fault”
To protect my own mental health, I choose to hang
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"An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity." -Terry A. Davis
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My wife after I get off a pair programming call: "It's so cute, you sound like kids discussing how to put the Lego bricks" 🤓❤️
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I love C++ but "C++ is a safe language if you're a good developer" is a silly opinion and you know it.
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~2 years ago I became convinced that meticulously checking every heap allocation for failure would lead to robust GUI applications that don't fall apart under resource pressure.
Fast-forward to today, we have made the SerenityOS codebase significantly uglier and less pleasant to
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“It’s a Unix system, I know this”
(Checking out some SunOS based control panels at a nuclear power plant 🤓☢️👦)
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If you told my 13 year old self that one day I'd be playing Diablo on a Unix system I built from the ground up with friends around the world.. 🤓🐞😈
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Fact: Every programmer has a plan for how they would "re-invent the web without all the complexity" that they have spent significant time daydreaming about.
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“Shitting on things to fit in” is one of the most common bad habits in the tech industry.
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When I first came to Apple, I would regularly dump whole days into "nerd vanity" projects like low-value refactoring and optimization
My managers were compassionate (perhaps having been this kid themselves 😅) and helped me get most of it out of my system.
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Your commit message vs the guy's she told you not to worry about
(from )
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I’ve made it to 37 years old! 🎉
There were many times when I could have killed myself by accident, and one time when it would have been on purpose.
Thankfully it never happened. Today I am grateful to be alive and thrilled to wake up every morning. 🤓🍰🌅
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You may not like it, but Safari is the main thing standing in the way of Chromium becoming the de facto web platform.
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Made it to 39! Thought I'd have a quiet afternoon to myself, but suddenly all 3 nephews showed up with cake and presents! 🎂🎁🎈
Grateful I was able to get clean & sober before they got very old, and now I get to live in this awesome timeline where I'm a cool uncle. 🤓❤️👦👦👦
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Linux, running in Ladybird, running on SerenityOS, running in QEMU, running on Linux! 🤓🐞🐧
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Time spent making this image: 2 minutes
Time spent explaining the joke to my wife: 8 minutes
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One of the most underrated features of macOS is protecting people from their own bad taste by keeping a limited but tasteful set of customization options.
You rarely see an ugly screenshot of macOS, while ugly screenshots of Windows, GNOME, KDE, Xfce, etc, are common.
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6 years clean & sober! 🤓🌅
Someone asked me if I still see myself as an addict, and the answer is: yes, and I must forever.
The moment I start thinking I’m not one is the moment I start sliding backwards again.
Today I am grateful to be alive and well. I hope you are too! 🌠
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I found a bar of Xanax at home last night, leftover from years ago.
For a moment, I held something in my hand that I knew could ruin my life and tear down everything I’ve built.
But instead I showed it to my wife and we flushed it together. It is good to be a free man. 🤓🙏🌅
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To pass the 1997 webdev exam, one must successfully make a rotating circle of text with DHTML! 🤓☸️🖥️
These kind of goofy things were very common on the web back then, but as a kid I didn't understand how to make them by myself. Today I'm making up for that! 😅
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Looking for a new gym, and two of the places I'm interested in have a "visitors in the gym right now" counter on their websites.
A wee bit of scripting later, and we're on our way to generate a nice map of optimal (pleasantly empty) gym hours! 🤓💻🏋️♂️
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A small, highly motivated team can build almost anything.
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@LeaVerou
Hi Lea! Nice of you to pile on.
I have absolutely nothing against gender neutral language. I am however against outsiders doing drive-by PRs with ideological motivations. If a regular contributor hade made these edits, I wouldn’t have thought anything of it. Could I have
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remember what they took from us
@apixelpusher
2009 version: 20MB fully native cocoa app, launches in less than a second, instant feedback when you click stuff, playback usually starts within 50ms
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I was interviewed by multiple large online publications in the last 4 weeks.
Talked about how we have no loyalties to the advertising industry, and about how Ladybird will not care about helping those who would track users.
None of them have published the story.
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Fun fact: some DDoS protection systems, upon suspecting your browser to be a bot, will send it *lots* of pointless busywork as punishment, e.g generating millions of SHA256 hashes.
We’re currently being flagged as bots by some such systems, and getting punished accordingly 😅
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This is dumb, Microsoft. Come on 😅
Left:
@ladybirdbrowser
Right:
@ladybirdbrowser
pretending to be Chrome
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Visiting Sweden's most famous website in the Ladybird browser! 🐞🌍🏴☠️
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I've successfully loaded VS Code in
@ladybirdbrowser
! 🤓🐞🌍
It's verrrrry slow (as expected), and we can't open any files since we're missing a bunch of APIs.
Still, a surprising amount of stuff does work.. for example: installing extensions! 🤯
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Since more than one person has asked..
@ladybirdbrowser
will never switch to Chromium, WebKit, Gecko, or any other engine.
We're trying to increase ecosystem diversity. For that, we need more engines. I think we have enough Chromium reskins at this point 😅
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Hard times create strong programmers
Strong programmers create frameworks
Frameworks create weak programmers
Weak programmers create hard times
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"But Chromium is an open-source project, with many companies collaborating!"
Yes, but
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Super Mario 64 running on SerenityOS! 🤓🐞🍄
Just got this screenshot from Jan who's working on porting it! This is running on top of our own LibGL and SoftGPU rasterizer 🤩
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I taught my nephew the basics of HTML. Now he’s making little pages and it’s sooo cute! 🥹❤️
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GitHub Copilot is an amazing tool, but I'd say it takes a few weeks of continuous use (and experimentation) to develop good intuition about how to co-op with it.
There are so many hard-to-articulate little things that affect the quality of suggestions, like how to organize code,
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Good morning to everyone except web servers who ignore requests if they don’t recognize the User-Agent header.
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Today my oldest nephew (7) told me "you've been my best friend for as long as I can remember" 🫠❤️👦
I would 100% have missed out on this if I hadn't gotten clean 4 years ago and I'm so grateful that I get to have this life instead. 🌅
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If you are a self learner looking to improve in systems development, one of the best places to start is building miniature systems.
A small game, a small compiler, a small HTML parser, a small console emulator, a small etc..
Miniatures make complexity approachable. 🤓👍
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A common misconception about a new browser engine is that it will automatically be more "lightweight" and "faster" by virtue of being new.
This is far from the truth, as the existing production engines have been tuned and optimized by professionals for decades.
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💁♂️ OSS maintainer tip: never accept a PR that you don't feel comfortable with, just because the author is pressuring you or the project.
You'll end up regretting it, and you'll become uncomfortable with the person whose code you shouldn't have accepted.
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It would be good for the world to have a browser that's neither directly nor indirectly funded by the advertising industry.
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INT32_MAX is not representable as a 32-bit float.
If you have a 32-bit integer containing INT32_MAX, cast it to a float, and then back to a 32-bit integer, you now have INT32_MIN instead.
This information now lives in the back of your head, I hope you'll never need it! 😅
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👋 Hello Twitter! Thought I'd try a (late) introduction
After completing a drug rehab program in 2018, I started work on a new operating system called SerenityOS 🐞. It's a Unix-like OS with a 1990's style GUI, written entirely in modern C++.
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Looks like LibJS (the JavaScript engine from SerenityOS/Ladybird) is now passing more of test262 than any other engine! 🤓🎉
As of today, we're at 88% pass rate. V8 is at 86%, JSC and SM at 85%.
Absolutely amazing effort by everyone who worked on it! 🤯
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My mom discovered my YouTube channel. She says she watched 2 videos and that she's very proud of me. Yay! 🤓❤️👩👦
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GitHub repos are starting to look pretty good in the Ladybird browser! 🤓🐞🌍
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I’ve recently spoken with former JavaScript engine leaders from Apple and Mozilla, and they both gave the same advice:
“Don’t build a JavaScript JIT. A really fast interpreter will be enough.”
Until we hit an unfixable performance problem, I’m inclined to believe them. 🤓
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Today
@KatalinKult
and I have been married for 11 years! 👩🎤❤️🤓
It’s been a bumpy journey to get here, but today we couldn’t be happier!
She’s always pushing me to improve, and always believing that I will.
Definitely recommend marrying your best friend! Love you, puffin 🥰
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Before you consider building something new, make sure you check with this guy first! 🤡😄
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I’ve received some cool job offers lately, but I’m committed to building SerenityOS and Ladybird. No amount of money will change that. What we have going here is worth more than gold to me. 🤓🌅
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4 years clean & serene 🙏🌅
The largest problems I have right now are insignificant when compared to the stuff I used to struggle with every day.
Life is beautiful, friends. Thanks for being here and sharing the experience! 🤓❤️
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Today my application for life insurance was rejected due to my history with drug and alcohol abuse.
Insurance company says a minimum 6 years of sobriety is required, and that I am welcome to re-apply in the future.
This made me sad, but then I realized that's less than 3 months
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Back in 1996, Microsoft added support for a second web scripting language in Internet Explorer: VBScript! 🤓⚙️🌍
It was a lightweight version of their Visual Basic language with equivalent DOM/CSS capabilities to JavaScript.
To use VBScript instead of JavaScript, you just had
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The Zig programming language has been ported to SerenityOS!
Absolutely stellar work by Agni on both the port and adding all the missing bits on our side! 🔥⚡️🐞
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As someone working on a new browser from scratch, here's what my GitHub contribution graph looks like.. 😅
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Ladybird vs Chromium: Twitter front page.
Need to figure out why we don't load the big background image, but other than that, general layout is coming together pretty nicely! 🤓🐞🌍
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Today I met my father for the first time in ~10 years and we had ice cream. It was a good day. 🤓🍦🍦👴
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As of today, we are now 6 full-time engineers working on
@ladybirdbrowser
! 🤯🐞
I'm so grateful to all of our sponsors, both large and small, for making this possible!
Feels like I'm living in a dream sometimes. Truly. 🌠
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I'm now hearing from other OSS projects who also got hit with big crypto donations ($100k+) yesterday.
To whoever is behind this: thank you for supporting open source software! 🤓❤️
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5 years clean & sober! 🤓🌅
Someone commented on a 4 year old video of mine the other day, saying "You've gotten more energetic" and boy have I.
Life is good, friends. Let's make the best of it! 💕
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