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hugs
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About hugs
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.