A hoy hoy! Our old friend Nick Nisi does his best to bring up TypeScript, Vim & Tmux as many times as possible while we discuss a new batch of web browsers, justify why we like the ones we do & try to figure out what it’d take to disrupt the status quo of Big Browser.

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Featuring:

• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Digging through Nick Nisi’s tool box (JS Party #278)


• Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome | Ars Technica


• Arc from The Browser Company


• Sizzy — The browser for web developers


• Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers


• Orion Browser


• Vivaldi Browser | Powerful, Personal and Private web browser


• The Ladybird browser project


• Horse Browser


• Web Browser Quiche on the App Store


• Nyxt browser: The hacker’s browser


• Opera browser goes free with version 5.0 launch • The Register


• Nick’s vim + tmux video


• Vim with Me playlist


• Our viral short on Instagram Reels


• Gabe Kangas on Mastodon


• Rich Harris on JS Party

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!