Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 🐞 ladybird.org/announcement.ht…

TODAY: We're live with Jelle Raaijmakers of @ladybirdbrowser! Learn how their team is building a brand-new web engine from scratch. 🛠️ Join the stream at 12 p.m. PT. ▶️ piped.video/watch?v=i6_79Rzn…

Apple put the App Store on the web so obviously we have to make it work in @ladybirdbrowser 🤓🍎

Excited to announce that @Coursiv_ is sponsoring Ladybird with a donation of $ 1,000! 🙌 Thank you so much for backing our mission! 💜

Our friends over at @sparkjsdev have this amazing gaussian splat viewer that had some issues on @ladybirdbrowser 😅 implemented some more WebGL2 API methods and look at it now!

Fun fact: The @axeptio_eu website doesn't load in @ladybirdbrowser! It's blocked by our "ad block" mechanism by default. 😅 Some backstory... Years ago, I added a simple "ad block" feature to Ladybird because ad & tracker scripts slowed the browser down so much that development was painful. (Also because browsing the web without an ad blocker sucks, let's be honest.) It works via simple URL pattern matching. I added a default list of known tracker domains and ad patterns to block, and over time, contributors expanded it. Today it has 869 entries. We never really audited it, it just grew organically. Long term, Ladybird will support 3rd party extensions, and users will be able to install real ad blockers like uBlock Origin or similar. We don't want to decide what to block. That power belongs to users. Now for the amusing twist: someone on that list decided to sponsor us before we built extension support! Axeptio makes GDPR consent popups (not ads or trackers) but they ended up on the list a couple years ago in a bulk update. Regardless, the Ladybird non-profit is strict about only accepting no-strings-attached sponsorships. We'll thank you on our website and YouTube/socials, and that's it. Sponsors have no influence over development. So I can't just delete Axeptio from the list. I'd look like a complete asshole and we'd (rightfully) lose everyone's trust. But if I do nothing, their site stays blocked when I demo new sponsors in my monthly update. Doing something sneaky (like secretly disabling the filter or editing the list) would also feel wrong. So here's what I did instead: I added a CLI option to run Ladybird with the blocking mechanism disabled (--disable-content-filter). That's it. It lets me show every sponsor's website fairly, without changing our code or compromising our principles. In time, once we have extension support, our crude home-grown block list will go away entirely. Huge thanks to Axeptio for sponsoring us anyway in these curious circumstances. And for believing in open, transparent development! 💜

We're thrilled to share that @axeptio_eu is sponsoring Ladybird with $10,000! Big thanks to @rbessuges & team for backing our mission to build an independent browser! 💜🍪 Check out Axeptio's announcement here: axept.io/blog/ladybird-open-…

Landing at SFO in 3 hours, had more than enough time to get another @tweakers bugfix for @ladybirdbrowser in! This time our SVG gradient fill coordinates were a bit off, causing nasty artifacts. No more!

Very thankful to announce that @gravwell_io is sponsoring Ladybird with $5,000! 🙌 It's awesome to see the continued support for our cause 💜

Hooray! @ladybirdbrowser has passed the 90% threshold on web-platform-tests! 📈🎉 This is the arbitrary limit Apple says we must reach to be considered an eligible alternative browser engine on iOS. (+ other requirements) So proud of the team for getting us this far 💜

Watching movie trailers on IMDb with @ladybirdbrowser 🐞🎞️ (Had to fix some SVG and CSS bugs for this to look as nice as it does. Have to fix a lot more things for performance to be good enough.. 😅)

We are proud to share that Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird at the Platinum level ($100,000)! It means a lot that a big player like Cloudflare is supporting a small team like ours in building an independent browser for the open web! We're super grateful! 🧡☁️

A better internet depends on a diverse ecosystem. Today, we're proud to announce our support for @ladybirdbrowser (a completely independent browser built from scratch) and @OmarchyLinux (making Linux more approachable for devs). Super excited to see what the community builds!

Come and meet us at the @githubuniverse Open Source Zone in San Francisco on October 28th! @ladybirdbrowser will be hosting a booth and we'd love to show you where we currently stand, and what it means to build a truly independent web browser. githubuniverse.com/

Hey @ladybirdbrowser am I the first one using slack on LadyBird 🐞✨?

We appreciate all the love for @ladybirdbrowser but please remember it's pre-alpha software with objectively bad performance and stability. We're not kidding when we say it's gonna take us a couple years to make it "1.0" quality! Along the way we're gonna have plenty of embarrassing bugs and yes, we'll be an easy target for people who want to laugh at an unfinished project. That's okay, it's part of building in the open! If you want to help us get better faster, we always welcome new developers! And if dabbling in browser development doesn't fit your lifestyle right now, we also love reduced HTML/CSS/JS test cases that expose issues! 🥰

I am excited to be able to sponsor such an important project in the ecosystem.

I super excited about this, because K15t stands for open access to knowledge and information, and with our sponsorship of @ladybirdbrowser, we support a more diverse and vibrant future for browser innovation, benefiting everyone who cares about the open web.

Very thankful for @unkeydev sponsoring Ladybird with a donation of $ 5,000! 🙌 Thanks to your contribution, we can make sure we reach the next milestones for our browser 🖤🚫🔑

The good folks over at @k15t_ have decided to sponsor Ladybird with a donation of $ 5,000! 🙌 Thank you so much for helping us achieve our goals! 💙💡