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This Month in Ladybird February 2025

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Glad to see Shopify continue their sponsorship.

Is there an RSS feed for this newsletter? The RSS link at the bottom of the site leads to the same thing as the News button on the top, which was last updated in Oct 24 and doesn't have these updates included.

https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird.org/pull/56

>Adds a simple posts rss feed. Partially implements #50.

>I chose not to implement an rss feed for newsletters, because it seems the structure related to metadata is still incomplete, and isn't locked down enough to be suitable for rss.

Maybe have them re-open https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird.org/issues/50 or check for an existing/create a new issue?

It seems #50 was meant for both a newsletter & posts, but they closed it, possibly prematurely, when they got posts working.

I don't think is available.

But you can do a couple of things:

1. Subscribe to the newsletter using kill-the-newsletter.com who creates an RSS feed for your subscription.

2. Follow the RSS feed [1] of their YouTube channel [2], they publish the monthly updates on a video format.

Can't find official Bluesky or Mastodon accounts to also offer you those RSS feeds.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCkT7pg-...

[2] https://youtube.com/@ladybirdbrowser

“Ladybird has since grown into a cross-platform browser supporting Linux, macOS, and other Unix-like systems” [1].

Whoah, I missed this!

[1] https://ladybird.org/

Does anyone know how the name Ladybird came about?

I hope we get monthly or at least quarterly Ladybird Newsletter just to keep the attention of the project along with attracting those who still dont know.

I would argue this is perhaps the most important OSS project right now. But gets very little support from bigger companies. Assuming money is an issue.

Anyone connected with Amazon, Meta, IBM, Oracle, Netflix, Salesforce, Adobe, Samsung, Epic, Uber, Bloomberg, Sony, Tesla. Platinum is only USD $100,000 a year. May be even Microsoft, since they dont own blink and would actually benefits competition eating away Chrome's advantage.

> I hope we get monthly or at least quarterly Ladybird Newsletter just to keep the attention of the project along with attracting those who still dont know.

They do monthly newsletter and accompanying youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/@LadybirdBrowser

> Does anyone know how the name Ladybird came about?

It's the colloquial name of an insect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccinellidae

Smart move reusing Dev Tools from Firefox. I always liked them better than ones in chromium browsers.

Lady bird is such a positive development. Turns out people can just make browsers. Wish them all the success in the world.

Amazing work every month, somehow.

RISC-V runners soon, hopefully.

Still unable to install it in MacOS arm64. As many other people have said, we'll go back to it on 2026.

What do you mean, why? I was easily able to install it on my M2 Macbook Air.

> CMake Error: CMake was unable to find a build program corresponding to "Ninja". CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM is not set. You probably need to select a different build tool.

But at the end the problem is a missing header somewhere else. A pretty common thing in their Discord #build-problems channel.

I love following the Ladybird development news. Keep up the good work and keep posting updates on HN!

OT: I liked SerenityOS monthly development video, too. Are they gone, now?

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