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I did something similar (NetCaptor)… starting in 1997. It’s cool to see that Maxthon is still around.


You were my hero back in the day! I remember spending so much time editing the Wikipedia entry for NetCaptor to get it more visibility.

For a LONG time, even after Firefox, NetCaptor was still the best browser around. I used QuickSearch all the time (and still have that habit to this day).

Next to Tim Berners Lee, IMO, you are the web's true unsung hero. THANK YOU a million times for bringing the single biggest improvement to the web browser in two decades.


Adam! NetCaptor had the best browser user experience ever. Thank you! :)


You the OG - think I used Netcaptor before Firefox came along.


you are still my hero…


Get out of here CB


Wow - that was a doozy.


“The Obstacle is the Way” by Ryan Holiday, Neuromancer by William Gibson, and “Thinking in Systems” by Donella Meadows


On deck is “Failing Up” by Leslie Odom Jr. and “Risk: User’s Guide” by Stanley McChrystal.

Fav listen on the last few months was Dave Grohl’s “The Storyteller”.


I built the "first tabbed browser", NetCaptor, back in 1997. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/meet-th...

My take - some of us leave tabs open way too long because we fear not being able to get back to those sites again… it’s loss aversion. Tabs aren’t the core problem per se, it’s recall. We need to solve the “I want to get back here again” problem.

I primarily use Brave and effectively start fresh every day. I might get up to 20 open tabs at any given time, and I sometimes use tabs as a sort of Inbox that needs to be cleared. But sometimes, it’s best to declare tab bankruptcy and start over.


Something I learned with tabbed browsing is that its important to clear the working "memory". One of my most used shortcuts is "close other tabs", and "close tabs to the right". Keeping tabs open should be like allocating to the stack and frequently cleared when the task is done. I might open 5 tabs from one link but when I have what I need I'll move the only the ones I need to the left and close the ones to the right. I find clearing tabs very refreshing - when in doubt: nuke it.

The introduction of tabs was fantastic, and I'm very glad you brought it to us. It bundles windows together, I would rather pick up my firefox bucket and look for a web page there than to look through a dumpster of software windows. But it took me a very long time before I figured out how to not let it get out of hand.

If people are afraid of losing tabs, they just aren't trusting their own memory/curiosity enough. When something is important, your mind tends to remember it, and if it wasn't, then its okay to have lost it. If something was that crucial, you can just Google it again, and if you cant find it on Google you still have your browser history.


I'm working on something that solves this. It's not ready yet, but here's a sneak peak of the landing page: http://closetab.email


Good point. I've lost track of the number of start-ups that proposed some kind of "Search your browser history" functionality, which, to be honest, I've wished for myself. But I don't know of any that have even made it to released-product stage.


Does Memex resemble what you were wishing for? (https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex/)


Not really -- What I'd like would be something that doesn't require me to annotate, in advance, what I want to find again. I often think, "I know I read something about this a while back!" and then I try to think which website I'd seen it on. The ones I've read about just watch your whole browsing history and let you search that.

I also couldn't get it to work when I tried a while ago (which I imagine they've fixed).


What about something with HTTrack as you browse and grep?


Yeah, that seems like a step in the right direction -- don't think I want all the images, just the text, but I'd guess that's an option.

Wonder if you could hook that in through a local proxy...


Thanks for the memories, and the inspiration!

Based on trends I saw in NetCaptor, I wrote an add-on for my favorite browser at the time, Opera, and happily used it for probably years.

I don't have the code nor the binary anymore, but a screenshot still remains:


Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, every three years or so.



Exactly what I was looking for, thanks. You wouldn't happen to know the workflow for sending the funds between Stripe to a lender using one of these apis would you? Specifically, do I need to transfer the funds from Stripe to a bank account first, or can I send the funds directly from Stripe?


What is local to you?


Oh I mean SF Bay Area, apologies for the confusion. Let me try to fix it.


I've recommended a "web app first" approach to some of my clients.

You might find parse.com services cover your user and notifications requirements, and perhaps even your REST backend.


thanks, the web app approach certainly makes a lot of sense. my only concern is whether html5 can get access to the phone's resources like the camera, dialer, etc.



Silver's round-by-round projection percentages are included in the HTML source. If you like building rule-specific points projections, here's the data, extracted:

https://gist.github.com/ajstiles/06e2ac52927d3f292255


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