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No worries at all, I don’t mind the question. But it could be a mix! My writing process involves bouncing ideas off LLMs about wording and sentence structure whenever I feel like I’ve reached a checkpoint in the writing process.

For a long time, even though I consider myself fluent in English and primarily speak English every day, both at home and at work, I’ve still felt like I’m not quite where I’d like to be in terms of proficiency. That feeling actually kept me from writing until fairly recently, because I was always worried that whatever I put down wouldn’t come across as coherent (or maybe polished?) enough.

I used to write a lot in my native language back in the day, so I think part of that hesitation came from knowing how naturally writing used to come to me and feeling like I couldn’t quite express myself the same way in English. More recently, though, LLMs have helped me with that. I feel much more comfortable putting my thoughts into writing again.

I actually feel like this is such an interesting topic to explore. I’d be curious to somehow experiment on myself and see whether I’ve started sounding like an LLM recently, and if so, whether we might eventually see people converging toward speaking, or even thinking, in the same way. Scary thought honestly.

Appreciate the kind words!

In true HN fashion, a surprising amount of the discussion ended up being about the title.

Turkish is my native language, and its sentence structure is pretty different from English, so that occasionally sneaks into how I phrase things. I can see why “my server runs on a phone now” is less ambiguous.

Anyway, I’ve enjoyed the accidental linguistics thread :)

Love the idea, great work!

I meant it from the server’s perspective: VPS before, phone now. The article clears up any ambiguity pretty quickly.

I meant it from the server’s perspective: VPS before, phone now. The article clears up any ambiguity pretty quickly.

The main difference is that Camoufox doesn't have an iOS 6 client. Surf is built around that client experience: omnibox, tabs, history, uploads/downloads, touch input, and audio/video streaming targeting 60fps. So Camoufox is great for running browser instances on a VPS, but it doesn't really replace what Surf is doing for an old iPad.

Some newer phones support bypass charging, which powers the phone directly instead of continuously cycling the battery. Mine doesn't support that, unfortunately, so I've limited charging to 80% to reduce battery stress.

Fair enough, that criticism resonates. I've decided to keep this behaviour only in the extension and have reverted it from the blog. Thanks!

I’ll accept that not everyone likes a portrait page on a landscape screen, that’s a matter of taste. But if you’re going to invoke Usage and Abusage, grammar, punctuation, and "basic decency", it would help to identify an actual error. And perhaps write "it’s" correctly while doing so. I’m also unclear what moral failing you think an A4 aspect ratio represents.

A bit of context, since this is much less serious than it may have sounded:

I use a single browser instance in a tiled window manager, occupying a fixed window directly in front of me, usually with a sidebar open. When a site intentionally centers a fixed-width container, the sidebar leaves that container visibly off the dead center of my screen. I happen to dislike that. This is a personal aesthetic preference for my particular setup, not a claim that viewport centering is generally wrong.

The intended behavior does not remove content or replace responsive layout. The sidebar still narrows the webview and the page reflows normally, the correction only repositions the container that was already meant to be centered, so its center remains in the same physical place. If content ends up covered, offscreen, or stuck in the wrong state, that’s a bug.

I don’t particularly mind the brief movement while toggling a sidebar, since the browsers I use already visibly resize and reflow pages while doing so.

I’m considering reverting the behavior on the blog and keeping it extension only. I’ve also added GIFs to the post showing the intended effect.

I’ve added GIFs showing the intended behavior. The brief movement doesn’t bother me, opening or closing a sidebar already resizes the webview and causes pages to reflow in the browsers I use. Ending in the wrong state after repeatedly toggling it is a bug. And yeah, if you prefer viewport centering, there’s no reason you’d want to use the extension.

Agreed, both outcomes are bugs and neither is intended. The idea is simply that, content the site author intended to be horizontally centered stays literally centered on my screen when browser UI changes the viewport.