THE VIDEO SHELF · browser engine debugging
Browser hacking: Let's make "Cookie Clicker" playable in Ladybird!
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 HN readers recommended 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.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Andreas Kling
- Topic
- browser engine debugging
- Format
- tutorial
- Level
- advanced
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2022–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I love Andreas Kling's "Browser hacking" series on YouTube where he fixes various issues Ladybird has with specific websites. E.g: Fixing a CSS layout bug found by chessboard.js - [LINK] Let's make "Cookie Clicker" playable in Ladybird! - [VIDEO] He's very good at articulating his …
hopfog on Hacker News · 2022-11
In Early stages of Google Docs support in the Ladybird browserOf course you are correct that supporting Twitter or any service is a moving target, so long as it changes. But that doesn't mean specific bugs can't be captured in a test case. Watch this video of Andreas doing exactly this, albeit for a simpler …
jonhermansen on Hacker News · 2023-04
In We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.