Archive - Andreas Kling

I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL

In 2018, I created the SerenityOS project after completing a drug rehab program.

Jun 3 •

March 2024

Fuzzing Ladybird with tools from Google Project Zero

While Ladybird does an okay job with well-formed web content, I thought it would be useful to throw some security research tools at it and see what kind…

Mar 16 •

June 2023

Welcoming Shopify as a Ladybird sponsor

Jun 28, 2023 •

April 2023

15-minute habit: Magyarul tanulok! (I am learning Hungarian)

4 weeks ago I wrote about taking on a 15 minute daily cleaning habit together with my wife.

Apr 29, 2023 •

Running Ladybird with foreign GUI toolkits

One of my long-term goals for the Ladybird web browser is to make it feel native on every platform it runs on.

Apr 25, 2023 •

Resizing the Mac App Store: a tale of regret & redemption

In 2013, I worked on the Safari/WebKit team at Apple.

Apr 19, 2023 •

Implementing an underspecified CSS feature (flexbox gaps)

While the CSS specifications have come a long way in recent years, it is still the case that some features are vague and underspecified.

Apr 17, 2023 •

How we're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible

“How is the SerenityOS team making such good progress on building their Ladybird browser, when we've heard for years that it’s impossible”?

Apr 11, 2023 •

Making myself uncomfortable again

In early 2019, some months after completing a rehab program for drug addiction, I was in a very open-minded headspace where I wanted to challenge myself…

Apr 7, 2023 •

MutexProtected: A C++ Pattern for Easier Concurrency

In this post, we will discuss the challenges of programming with locks and how the C++ language offers some useful tools to make it easier.

Apr 6, 2023 •

Excellence is a habit, but so is failure

We often hear that making small incremental improvements every day can lead to great things.

Apr 5, 2023 •

How SerenityOS declares ssize_t

This post explores one of my favorite hacks in SerenityOS. I don’t recommend doing this in your codebase, but it has worked for us so far. :^)

Apr 4, 2023 •

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