https://alexf.tech/enMon, 25 May 2026 02:51:47 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://alexf.tech/blog/page-playground/Alex Franchuk<p>With release 151 of Firefox, the Gecko engine now supports <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Serial_API">Web Serial</a>! I was tasked with creating a demo using <a href="https://www.adafruit.com/">Adafruit</a> products, both to show off the sort of thing you can do with this new feature and to lean into our new partnership with Adafruit. It was a lot of fun, especially because I haven't had an opportunity to mess around with hardware in a while. Check out <a href="https://adafruit-playground.com/u/afranchuk/pages/page-playground-using-web-serial-in-firefox">my post on the Adafruit Playground</a>.</p>adafruitmozillaweb-serialhttps://alexf.tech/blog/page-playground/Mon, 25 May 2026 02:39:01 GMThttps://alexf.tech/blog/porting-the-firefox-crash-reporter-to-rust/Alex Franchuk<p>At Mozilla I recently rewrote the crash reporter (a cross-platform native GUI application) in Rust, using no external GUI libraries! This involved quite a lot of architecting and there were many hurdles to overcome. I've written a Mozilla Hacks <a href="https://hacks.mozilla.org/2024/04/porting-a-cross-platform-gui-application-to-rust/">blog post</a> detailing the work. Check it out!</p>mozillarustsoftware-engineeringhttps://alexf.tech/blog/porting-the-firefox-crash-reporter-to-rust/Tue, 23 Apr 2024 20:10:57 GMT