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Browser hacking: Let's make "Cookie Clicker" playable in Ladybird!

Andreas Kling · tutorial · Watch on YouTube

Web developmentSoftware practice, open source & careersCompilers, interpreters & program analysis

What it is

In a long live-coding session, Andreas Kling works on making the Cookie Clicker game playable in the Ladybird browser from SerenityOS. He tracks down bugs in the browser engine and fixes them.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN loves the Browser hacking series for its clear debugging method of reducing bugs to minimal reproductions, which people say influenced their own testing.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2022, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “I love Andreas Kling's "Browser hacking" series on YouTube”

    Clear thought process reducing bugs to minimal reproducible examples.

    hopfog, 2022-11 · Strong recommendation · in “Early stages of Google Docs support in the Ladybird browser”

  2. “At one point, he deletes half the HTML file to isolate where in the site the problematic code is.”

    Shows isolating bugs into small test cases by repeatedly halving the HTML.

    jonhermansen, 2023-04 · Recommendation · in “We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible”

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Topics: ladybird, serenityos, c++, browser engine, live coding

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