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Brian R. Bondy
Personal blog · brianbondy.com/blogprogrammingculture
Brian R. Bondy's personal blog at brianbondy.com covers programming and culture. Since 2011, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “Mozilla Firefox and silent updates”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Brian Bondy's writing about software, running, work, and life.
Most-linked posts?
- Mozilla Firefox and silent updates3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-10-04
- Firefox Metro development begins, status update3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-03-10
- The road to Brave 1.0 (2019)2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-11-15
- /blog/id/168/sql-on-khan-academy-enabled-by-sqlite-sqljs-asmjs-and-emscripten/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-12-01
- Firefox Metro development begins, status update2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-12
- Frequently asked questions for Silent Updates in Firefox2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-26
- Brian R. Bondy - Twitter accounts for all StackOverflow users by reputation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-01-01
What Hacker News says?
Yes, please read https://brianbondy.com/blog/174/the-road-to-brave-10 .
Comment linking /blog/174/the-road-to-brave-10
on “uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store”Submitted Stackoverflow abuses nofollow (2011) as a story · 126 points
HN discussionNo, we started with Gecko (on Graphene, a sandboxing multiprocessor framework from b2g/FirefoxOS). We switched for hard-nosed wins of Chromium (as part of Electron) because out of the box vs. Gecko, most rows in the spreadsheet favored Chromium decisively. This is covered in https://brianbondy.com/blog/174/the-road-to-brave-10 Why do you write "probably... based on... relationship ended"? Brave as a startup does not…
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on “uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store”Submitted Average age of StackExchange users for each tag as a story · 98 points
HN discussionWe started on Gecko -- see https://brianbondy.com/blog/174/the-road-to-brave-10 . It lost on many dimensions, as it has for other newer browsers. Your desire for us or anyone to die on the Gecko hill would, had we acted on it, simply have helped Google cement the Chrome (not chromium) hegemony. The crucial battle right now is a layer up, at ads/donations/subscriptions/privacy -- where Firefox has been slow and weak…
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on “Brave launches 1.0”Submitted Mozilla Firefox and silent updates as a story · 60 points
HN discussionIt must have been: Brave co-founder Brian Bondy blogged about that purchase several months ago. http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/171/the-link-bubble-android-w...
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on “Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup”Submitted A working Firefox Windows 8 Metro prototype, status update 3 as a story · 45 points
HN discussionIt's based on GitHub's Electron (Chromium) on desktop, and Firefox for iOS on iOS: http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/172/brave-software
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on “Brave: Brendan Eich's clean-ads browser startup”Submitted Firefox Metro development begins, status update as a story · 5 points
HN discussionFYI on the Khan Academy, they have some excellent database tutorials: https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/hour-of-code/hour-of-s... The coolest part is that the sql engine is actually sqlite compiled with emscripten to javascript. More details on the implementation here: https://brianbondy.com/blog/168/sql-on-khan-academy-enabled-...
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on “PostgreSQL Exercises”Submitted Firefox Metro development begins, status update as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYep, confirmed. Here's a blog post by Brian who implemented the SQLite support in our editor: http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/id/168/sql-on-khan-academy-en...
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on “Learn SQL Interactively on Khan Academy”Submitted Brian R. Bondy - Twitter accounts for all StackOverflow users by reputation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMuon was our Electron fork (μ− is heavy e-), but Brave started on Gecko: https://brianbondy.com/blog/174/the-road-to-brave-10
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on “Mozilla's abandoned web engine 'Servo' project is getting a reboot”Submitted The road to Brave 1.0 (2019) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionkhanacademy.org - Mountain View, CA - remote is a possibility Non-profit trying to change education. A note we got last week: ================================== I only have a bachelor's degree in IT and I can only find "boring" jobs because of that even if my actual job can seem cool on paper. I watched Cosmos and other sciences/physics stuff and was always amazed by that kind of knowledge. I tried to understand a b…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)”Submitted Investing in our community through Code Firefox as a story · 2 points
HN discussionChrome avoids it by installing into the User's own folder. Firefox is installed in Program Files, which requires user authorisation. Arguably, this is the correct place to install, as it means that the application is usable by anyone on the PC, rather than having to be installed for each user individually. You can find more information here: http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/id/125/
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on “MemShrink progress report, week 23”Submitted User study on mentoring a large first bug fix for Firefox as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFYI this is what powers the interactive SQL engine for the SQL classes on the Khan Academy. If you've never seen them, it is really cool. http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/168/sql-on-khan-academy-enabl... https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming/s...
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on “SQLite compiled into JavaScript via Emscripten”Submitted The latest on Firefox for Windows 8 Metro, status update 4 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe major change to updates in Fx12 is that the Windows UAC prompt will no longer appear for every update (by default). Some additional changes (like finishing the update in the background instead of at the next startup) are coming in a later version: http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/id/133/
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on “Firefox 12 released”Submitted The latest on Firefox for Windows 8 Metro, status update 4 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI'm the owner of the site, here is the associated blog post that summarizes some of that data: http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/id/117/
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on “Average age of StackExchange users for each tag”Submitted FAQs for Silent Updates in Firefox as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou might be confused with something else. Brave was founded by Brandon Eich (created JS, worked at Mozilla) and Brian Bondy who also worked at Mozilla ( https://brianbondy.com/resume ). Neither have Palantir on their resumes.
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on “Tell HN: Brave Browser is still messing with affiliate links”Submitted Frequently asked questions for Silent Updates in Firefox as a story · 1 points
HN discussionTake a look at Brian's blog post that goes through what is coming on this front: http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/id/125/
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on “Announcing Firefox Aurora 10”Submitted Firefox Metro development heating up, 2nd status update as a story · 1 points
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