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Hello friends! I am very excited about this indeed :)

If you’d like to know more about Ladybird, I did a presentation about it at the Web Engines Hackfest in Spain just two weeks ago: https://youtu.be/De8N1zrQwRs

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Andreas has just had a second one!

> 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..

https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1670440822129532928

I guess it has to be the same guy feeling generous, but I just got a driveby dono of $100,000 in crypto as well :O

Congrats! Sounds pretty amazing coming right on the heels of your decision to go full time. I have so many questions — hope you’ll put out an update when you’re done celebrating ;)

Yeah it's very generous and amazing. ... although, like Andreas I have some things to figure out in terms of how to liquidate the asset.

Swedish banks really don't like crypto, to the point where I've had trouble charging for API access because I couldn't prove the money wasn't from crypto :-/

I have some old friends who are deep into that world, gonna have to see what advice they have. Still, as far as problems go, it's a nice problem to have I guess.

Congrats Andreas! I'm hoping that we see Ladybird become a contender in the browser space and in 10 years the browser landscape is once again diverse!

Of course this means that in 20 years we will probably have another stagnated monoculture based on some weird 3rd party, hostile corporate fork of Ladybird, but by that time you will hopefully own a venture capital firm and will be happily sipping mojitos in the Bahamas, and the cycle shall begin again ;-)

> you will hopefully own a venture capital firm and will be happily sipping mojitos in the Bahamas, and the cycle shall begin again ;-)

Or he could just be comfortable, and the product could keep delivering the same thing, with incentives mostly aligned on all sides.

Not to bring negativity to the thread, but it's certainly possibly to do better than what you've described as a tongue-in-cheek norm.

As someone who has also been attempting to write a minimal browser in my free time, and so far has made much less progress, I fully support your fight against Big Browser.

Whenever I see your stuff it is always so cool. Im also glad to see everyone still going at it years down the line. Now that there is decent money to back it up it so much better!

Party on!

Congrats Andreas. What you are building is incredible, both from a technological point of view but also for education and inspiration. That influence you can spread for me is the thing that is most exciting about the project!

Hello there, great work! I have been following since a long time, back when you were on Freenode IRC. If you do bridge your Discord to IRC, please do announce it somewhere.

One suggestion: maintain your compatibility with Linux, as this would likely bring more people to your browser and lower the barrier to work on the browser.

Is there a chance of an embeddedable/library version in the future? I think there are a lot of places where it would be useful, plus it would allow ports to more esoteric systems

I guess the library part is LibWeb: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Userland/...

Hi Andreas, when are we getting the next batch of “FIXME Roulette” videos? They’re the most entertaining yet educational debugging videos out there.

Andreas my guy! congrats! and I'm sure many people have asked this request: please integrate adblocking to Ladybird.

Basic pattern-based content filtering is already built right into LibWeb[1]. I spot 851 patterns that get filtered currently [2].

1: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/Userland/... 2: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/Base/home...

Well, good news about that, a simplified version of adblocking through content filtering[0] is already part of Ladybird (and has been part of Browser[1], the version of Ladybird integrated in Serenity, for a while). There is even a video[2] where Andreas implemented it!

[0] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/Ladybird/...

[1] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/Userland/...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc22wPqpaBQ

I just want a browser that tastes like a real browser!

Awesome and well deserved! One of my favorite projects.

Hey, I tried to contact you (via twitter since I couldn't find an email) about if you would be interested in doing a talk at öredev about ladybird a few months back. I assume the lack of a reply meant you weren't interested, but if that wasn't the case and it was just drowned out in your notifications let me know :)

Congratulations, I wish you massive success.

That was a great presentation. Now I'm going to have to try Ladybird :D

It works! (of course it does)

This is all very interesting. Next is poking around in it for a bit.

Thanks so much.

Huge thank you for SerenityOS, Ladybird, and maybe Jakt at some point.

Did this sponsorship result from your presentation?

Akling, I hope you keep doing inspiring work! Thank you for your contributions!

Hey akling, since you’re building a browser I’ve got to ask, do you have any thoughts on https://htmx.org/ or whether it could be supported as part of some extension to Ladybird?

I thought htmx is just a library, does it need support by the browser?

The htmx library emulates what would be possible if browsers supported gets/posts on other html elements like buttons. It’s a library because no browser supports this natively.

Make it natively supported, watch it catch on like wildfire if the browser gets any traction with devs.

@akling i'd be happy to chat about this if you are interested in extending HTML as a hypermedia. I'm the creator of htmx, and I don't think it should have to exist: it's what HTML should have evolved into.

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