Why zer0 renders with WebKit and not Chromium, argued without a benchmark, with the measured cost of the choice written next to it.

The design decisions in zer0 that only exist because something got measured: a logo rejected by a rasteriser, a luminance band where no ink is readable, a find bar that refuses to count, and a lock mechanism that admits what it cannot prove.

Open source activity in August 2026: PRs, reviews, issues, comments across multiple repositories.

Writing software got cheap enough that building something to throw it away is now the sane move. What did not get cheaper is knowing what would make you throw it away, and that has to be written down first.