chrmod
Twenty years building for the open web. Browsers, extensions, search, ads. Currently tracking the trackers at Ghostery; previously building browsers at Cliqz. Here I write about what survives — and what should.
- 2026·05·07
Porting the Servo browser engine to iOS in two evenings
Servo just shipped 0.1.0 on crates.io. The EU just made Apple let us ship our own engines on iOS. I had two evenings free.
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An extension is a tiny browser, badly
Drafting. Why MV3 hurts more than its critics admit, and what we built around it for fifteen years.
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The independent search index that almost was
Drafting. Notes from inside Cliqz on building a crawler, an index, and a privacy-preserving telemetry stack — and what we'd do differently.