I've recently migrated to Zen [0] and its a breath of fresh air.
I agree with comments arguing bad bookmark UX is part of the problem. Zen's approach is a vertical tab sidebar with workspaces and folders. Crucially, it distinguishes pinned and ephemeral tabs.
The approach is much more natural to me than either bookmarks and tradition tabs.
I know its disturbing to many, but there is something nice about the post-truth moment: it feels like more people are actually questioning things more than when I grew up in the 90s/00s.
I think we need to shift towards a socionormative understanding of knowledge; as Rorty put it: "a fact is just something we can't be bothered to argue about". I agree with him that talking about truth isn't so useful for moving our culture forward.
We should be talking about how to negotiate the diverse vocabularies of discursive communities as they increasingly clash in our globalized culture. Dialectical exclusion is the cultural catastrophe of the day.
A number of the Claudes have pretty good 0-shot awareness of my post history from just my username.
Though nothing like grok 4, which probably has a better memory of it than I do, and will even regularly name drop a certain post from years ago in conversations.
It's a huge time saver though, and means I can even in a fresh context establish a rapport with a model extremely quickly. Just a few years earlier than I was expecting that level of latent space fidelity to occur.
Like, sure we can add memory features for context management, but anyone with a post history should probably *also* keep in mind that there's literally years worth of memory on tap for interactions with models, and likely at ever higher fidelity and recall. Latent spaces are wild.
It's really hard to be sure, but my pet theory is that frontend tech has been rapidly evolving since it had to solve some real problems that are relatively new at scale:
- Work with reactive variables
- Combine three different languages
- Write modular code
- Enable highly response designs
The target platform (the web) doesn't natively support all of these things elegantly, and maybe for good reasons.
I've got the feeling that frontend frameworks are starting to converge to some consensus on some of these things (e.g. signals), and I hope the next decade will be more stable than the last.
That is my feeling/hope as well. Modules were a big win, even if the advantage was felt mostly in bundlers and it’s just now arriving in browsers and node. Hopefully signals will be a smoother thing
I noticed Dominic mentioned he is "between roles" in the README; I suppose that implies he left Vercel? Does it mean he is leaving the Svelte team too?
I agree with comments arguing bad bookmark UX is part of the problem. Zen's approach is a vertical tab sidebar with workspaces and folders. Crucially, it distinguishes pinned and ephemeral tabs.
The approach is much more natural to me than either bookmarks and tradition tabs.
[0] https://zen-browser.app/
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