we’re mere months away from a from-scratch full browser imp…

Samuel

@samuel.fm

we’re mere months away from a from-scratch full browser implementation, right?

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Samuel 8 Sept

god it’s going to be jarred sumner isn’t it. fuckin bun browser

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Lino Le Van 8 Sept

I’ve heard rumors that even pre acquisition they were prototyping a browser at Oven

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Lino Le Van 8 Sept

I think it was a chromium fork at the time but yeah no doubt in my mind they would write it from scratch these days

Jim Calabro ♟️8 Sept

I do think the industry is long overdue for some new ideas in really ripe foundational tech Don't just rewrite it for the sake of rewriting, but I want people to bring new ideas to OSes DBs Browsers Languages GUI tooling Network software Etc...

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Samuel 8 Sept

now is definitely the time for it

Jim Calabro ♟️8 Sept

Also, zero of the existing "popular" upstart projects will succeed in their goal (ladybird for instance)

Sound in Linux

Let's not get crazy

Pipewire gang

JauntyWunderKind 8 Sept

Hunch: pipewire is good for much much more; we have only really began to see its use. Zero copy cross process IPC ftw.

Nick Tune 8 Sept

Everyone needs something to listen to while struggling to fix their wifi drivers every day, even linux users.

fry69 8 Sept

👻 binary graphics driver 👻

Dziban 8 Sept

I've been experimenting a bit on the OS side of things in case something resonates! bsky.app/profile/dzi-...

Dziban@dzi-ban.bsky.social· 5 Sept

~~ Weird experiments in human-agentic interactions #1 ~~ What would re-thinking the operating system mean in agentic times? I've been exploring a design of an operating system that is fully actor based where agents are part of the operating system and acting as actors with capabilities.

fry69 8 Sept

> I do think the industry is long overdue for some new ideas in really ripe foundational tech Inevitable solution ->

nate@zzstoatzz.io· 7 Sept

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JauntyWunderKind 8 Sept

With so so much compute existing, figuring out how to project it spatially, to render it an let us draw what is happening: that feels like some giant next gateway to letting humanity at large in to computing. I have hopes!!

fry69 8 Sept

Let's call this the "atverse"

JauntyWunderKind 8 Sept

I'm being obtuse, but, this is a pretty wide chunk of the stack, & I'm so excited! bsky.app/profile/jaun... Not enough to put down every other thing & just do this, but still! Lots of wishes & re-wishes day by day week by week at the wish factory. Lots of honing. Coming Soon.

JauntyWunderKind@jauntywunderkind.bsky.social· 6 Sept

Finally learn/discover how to write software. Build the constituent parts. State/config, persistence, ops/orchestration, control systems.

Dziban 8 Sept

Also some ideas around programming language and platforms: dziban.net/posts/yabu/

Yabu - 藪 — dziban.net

This language is an exploration in many fronts, my personal programming language aesthetics, a programming language that fits how I think, and a programming language to attempt to reduce the unreliabi...

dziban.net

zeu 8 Sept

staring at ladybird.org

Ladybird

Ladybird is a truly independent web browser, backed by a non-profit.

ladybird.org

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gabi 🐝8 Sept

(gleefully) it's a terrible time to be Andreas Kling

Apex 8 Sept

months away into the past, right? didn't cursor do this?

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th.alassa 8 Sept

yes, and then Cloudflare also did it with Kitesurf (with the explicit design goal of rendering most pages well enough for agentic use and using less memory than Chromium)

fry69 8 Sept

From January -> simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/27/...

One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch

embedding-shapes was so infuriated by the hype around Cursor's FastRender browser project - thousands of parallel agents producing ~1.6 million lines of Rust - that they were inspired to take …

simonwillison.net

Nick 8 Sept

yeah I think one of the complaints about AI is "well where's the open source vibe coded Photoshop replacement." it isn't here *yet* but I'd wager we're not far off