Notes on browsers, Chromium, and the protocols that keep showing up when agents meet origins. Same voice as the about page: first person, concrete, no empty thought-leadership.
Chromium is adding cues: small prompts in the address bar that invite you to use AI. Today that still means summarization, questions about the page, and translation — too generic to matter. What would actually help is grounding in recent search and work, so a summary answers the question that brought you here. Privacy and compute cost are the real blockers; form filling looks like a workable first step. The less obvious scenarios are in the note.
Public data you can see in a browser — but not fetch automatically. A note on ToS, hiQ v. LinkedIn, AI agents, and why changing user behavior may push the web toward more openness.
Five minutes to specify a script, twenty minutes of automated collection, more than 300 popular domains — and only one WebMCP assistant. A weekend note on tinkering, AI, and ten-minute hobby slots.