Stephen Farrugia
Stephen Farrugia
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Design enthusiast. Experienced user.
I have been making these videos about tech & design: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwvAAoSdsXWxHwFbULgbpVGiLmJZv4X1g
and in audio: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse
An Australian in Amsterdam
Blog: https://www.fasterandworse.com
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WriteFreely: gibberish.awful.systems/fasterandworse/
Mozilla's new CMO, John Solomon, talking about his mission to "normalise" AI
RE:
Firefox's killer feature is that it's not chromium. That's the pull. Nothing to do with tab grouping or UI design.
When your userbase is made of people who don't want bullshit, you are taking a risk with every new feature, especially the ultimate bullshit feature of AI
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Stephen Farrugia (@fasterandworse@hci.social)
> Enzor-DeMeo spent 2025 racing to make Firefox a more compelling product, adding things like tab groups, while also trying to figure out how the b...
> Enzor-DeMeo spent 2025 racing to make Firefox a more compelling product, adding things like tab groups, while also trying to figure out how the browser should integrate with AI.
It's a web browser! It doesn't have to be compelling! It's for accessing compelling stuff!
archive: https://archive.is/VCWZI
The Verge
Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox
Anthony Enzor-DeMeo is taking charge of one of the internet’s most important — and most complicated — companies.
The World Is Not A Desktop - Mark Weiser
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/174800.174801
AI assistant bots can be replaced by a single button that says "cancel my contract"
I feel like the "it's good for building prototypes" vibe coding excuse ignores the way that building a prototype also helps build a strategy for how to code the real thing. As in, a prototype isn't just to validate the idea, it also helps validate the best course of production.