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Matt Birchler ☛ I was on Hacker News yesterday and didn't even notice
Anyway, I noticed there was a spike yesterday. This blog gets a couple thousand visits per day, so a spike to to 30k views in a day, half of which were this post from a week ago is pretty notable, to say the least. But like I said, I didn't even notice until now.
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Flamed Fury ☛ My first HWC
Discussion covered how you make your personal site feel like you rather than just look like you, why it’s easier to write for fun, and our usage of static site generators. I got to talk through how I’d approach building a website from the start. We had a group photo midway, before setting some goals for what we might want to achieve or share before the next meetup.
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The Ladybird Browser Initiative ☛ This Month in Ladybird - July 2026 - Ladybird
Everything Ladybird stores now lives inside a profile (#10663). A profile owns its own settings, bookmarks, history, cookies and site storage, HTTP caches, etc.
There’s a default profile that we use unless you specify otherwise: [...]
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Chromium
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Jeff Kaufman ☛ Vertical Tabs in Chrome
Since monitors are wide and websites are tall, we should very clearly put tabs on the side in a vertical stack. I was a heavy user of these in Firefox, and when I switched to Chrome I used their experimental --enable-vertical-tabs flag. When they removed it I wrote a post about how I love side tabs and switched back to Firefox: [...]
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Mozilla
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Mozilla ☛ Firefox UX: Let your designs fail for the right reasons
How AI-assisted native prototypes changed what usability testing could show me.
If you’ve ever simplified an interaction just to make a prototype manageable, you’ve probably felt the tension between what you designed and what the prototype could actually support. The risk is that when a design fails in usability testing, you can’t always tell why. Was the experience itself the problem, or was it really the prototype getting in the way: a missing connection, a laggy transition, a path you didn’t build?
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