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current

User & Agents: Growing a community working on projects that increase user agency at the intersection of the web, AI and end-user programming.

Peek: What comes after browsers? How can we work more directly with the web itself? Peek is an experimental web user agent exploring these questions though design experiments and (mostly) working code.

WebTransitions: Accelerating transitional change on the web platform and in browsers with funding, coordination and development.

recent

Web Features Project: Spent a half-year on an initiative funded by Google at the W3C Web DX CG to shape the 15k+ individual pieces of the web platform into ~1000 Web Features, currently used by MDN, Caniuse, Google and more.

Filecoin Foundation: Advising on IPFS, digital archiving, space, devrel and more.

past

Protocol Labs

Mozilla

ongoing projects

Intent to Ship: A bot that posts when browser makers announce their intent to ship/change/remove/etc features in their web engines - Bluesky / Mastodon / Twitter / Github

Superflow.dev - Stack Overflow metrics dashboard and health monitoring for maintainers - Github

Always Right: Browser extension to always open new tabs to the right of the active tab - Chrome / Firefox

Dormancy: Browser extension for configurable tab unloading - Firefox

Tab Statistics: Browser extension to count open tabs, and tabs open/closed/switched per day - Firefox

Vim keybindings: Browser extension providing basic directional keybindings - Firefox

oldentymes projects

Libdweb

Meatclub.in

Noms.in

NuSOAP

the hits

#1 on HackerNews: January 17 2024 - "Filecoin Foundation successfully deploys IPFS in space"

#1 on HackerNews: July 21, 2017 - "The new Firefox and ridiculous numbers of tabs"

Digg front page: June 20, 2006 - I wrote up the plans for session-restore in Firefox on this wiki page which hit the Digg front page and knocked over the Mozilla wiki