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When Chrome introduced Manifest V3, ad blockers took the biggest hit. The idea behind MV3 itself was not necessarily a bad one: extension code that sits in the request path of every page load is bad …

Last night an AI saved my life. Well, not literally, and not even last night. But I really believe it saved the browser engine project I’ve been working on for years. We are steadily going through all …

I have always lived by the mantra “Make things work, make things right, make things fast”. It’s a great way to approach software development, and it has served me well over the years. Lately, though, …

Elliptic curves often feel like mathematical magic. Somehow, with relatively simple arithmetic operations on points, we can build secure cryptographic systems. But the underlying ideas are actually …

For years I had a small private page on my machine with a bunch of hacky tools for day-to-day crypto work. Hashing a string, base64 encoding something, generating a random key. Nothing fancy. Just …