Falkon: Development Update, Oct 2022

Weird news from development of Falkon web browser.

Development: Site Settings

At the start of the month I did something and I already forgot what it was (very sad) and than I took a “short” break for a week which turned out ot be for a whole month due to other reasons.

Extensions

During this break I worked on two QML extensions Cookies.txt and Readability. The Cookies.txt is in a way me trying to understand how to work with cookies from within QML extension in order to write a proper tutorial for it. The Readability was done on a request and because I thought it can be somehow hacked with QML. This took a bit longer than I expected, but it is nice to have.

Conclusion

I learnt quite a lot this month, just from this point it was a good month.

Articles from blogs I follow:

“We should be more ambitious with the software we build”

Since early this year, Michael Malis (of pgrust) has been showing me interesting things he's done and saying [W]e should be more ambitious1 with the software we build There is, understandably, a lot of skepticism about projects like pgrust because there…

via danluu.com October 24, 2026

With "AI" coding the future of software development looks more grim than ever before!

This is not just a rant, this is a serious call and warning to every company or project developing software.

via Unix Digest - Articles October 20, 2026

GPG Update 2026

A recent toot of mine got the response “friends don’t let friends use GPG” which, I suppose, is true enough. It certainly isn’t the attestation-friendly thing to use, and the opsec failures that are so easy with GPG-encrypted mail make it a hazard there. …

via [bobulate] February 3, 2026

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