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hugs

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About hugs

Jason Huggins:

Contact:

  Twitter: http://twitter.com/hugs
  Email: jrhuggins at gmail dot com
Currently:

  Founder/Engineer: Tapster Robotics, Inc. (www.tapster.io)
Open Source Projects Started:

  - Selenium (web testing)
  - Appium (mobile testing)
  - Tapster (device testing)
  - Vibium (... and now with AI!!)
Previous:

  - White House Tech Surge (HealthCare.gov)
  - Co-founder/CTO, Sauce Labs
  - Google
  - ThoughtWorks
  - PeopleSoft
School:

  - University of Notre Dame
  - Westlake High School (California)

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49211928

    i've been tempted to use an agent to help me find non-horrible seats to see the 70mm imax version of the odyssey. but that's also the kind of thing that is heavily guarded by anti-…

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    Comment #49211862

    thanks for the extra context. i'm friendly with devs working on the protocol, but looking for ways to get them more support.

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    Comment #49211478

    ok, cool. looks like i should chat with the fine people at cloudflare, too.

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    Comment #49211186

    any plans to support webdriver bidi for automation? (i'd be happy to help!) [edit: for others reading who don't usually nerd out on browser automation protocols: webdriver bidi is …

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    Comment #49010093

    no kidding. it was the last demo in the video, but my first reaction seeing the zippers-instead-tent-poles demo was, "oh, that's going to be huge." weight and "how well does it han…

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    Comment #48493907

    since the rise of agentic coding tools, it feels like we're in a new "eternal september" of people discovering ui end-to-end test automation.

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    Comment #48461272

    not many people talk about mapquest anymore.

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    Show HN: Roadie – An open-source KVM that lets AI control your phone

    Roadie is an open-source hardware KVM controlled via HTTP. HDMI capture in, USB keyboard/mouse/touch out, all from a browser. Hardware KVMs with web UIs have existed for years (PiK…

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    Comment #47395262

    have you tried vibium's cli + agent skill?

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    Comment #47395256

    some serious people use vibium instead. (full-disclosure: "some serious people" is me.)

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    Comment #47395240

    that is the MCP vs CLI debate.

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    Comment #47395215

    i wish more people knew or cared about web standards vs proprietary protocols. the webdriver bidi protocol took the good parts of cdp and made it a w3c standard, but no one knows a…

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    Comment #47357405

    most people just click the "internet" button and use whatever was already pre-installed.

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    Comment #47357010

    they probably meant desktop. i do browser test automation (selenium, vibium), and the lack of google chrome on arm64 trips up new users frequently. the workaround is to just use ch…

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    Comment #47335051

    hi, i'm jason huggins (selenium, appium, now vibium). browser automation and testing have been my jam for a long time. for most of that time, it would be fair to say browser automa…

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    Comment #47132223

    openclaw is the napster of itunes. people who have been around long enough know that we're currently in the wild west of networked agentic systems. it's an exciting time to build a…

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    Comment #46877995

    possibly also a boon for automated testing tools and infra designed for ai-driven coding.

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    Comment #46747911

    not mozilla-related, but there's also the ladybird project if you're looking for sustainable alternatives: https://ladybird.org/

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    Comment #46623870

    vibium clicker, too. https://github.com/VibiumDev/vibium/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.m... "browser automation for ai agents" is a popular idea these days.

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    Comment #46482396

    ignore the haters. this is cool. (and i've been vibe coding with claude code and termux for months. it's good stuff.) i would highly recommend you add guidance on automated data ba…

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    Comment #46472302

    claude code 100%

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    Comment #46436060

    i'm vibe coding vibium, a test automation tool in the spirit of playwright and selenium. (was #1 on hn last week for a little bit with a lively discussion.)

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    Comment #46387038

    short-term mediation is always always always run it in a virtual machine with as minimal credentials as possible.