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Alex Chen

Browsers, reading & the open web

Alex Chen

Lives in tabs. Tries to finish the read-it-later queue. Still thinks RSS is fine.

Chicago, IL

Browsers, extensions, feeds, and reading workflows for people whose internet is mostly links they meant to open later. Privacy tools when they live in the browser, web apps when they replace a native install.

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Alex treats the browser like an OS, which is either a lifestyle or a cry for help depending on the week. The beat is extensions that fix real annoyances, read-it-later setups that don't become guilt warehouses, RSS when the algorithm feed gets weird, and making pages suck less on a normal laptop.

Did front-end for years and still opens DevTools when something feels sluggish. Indie-web soft spot. Will defend unfashionable tools if they work. Overlaps with Morgan on privacy (browser vs phone angle), with Sam on capture-to-read workflows, and with Riley when two readers or two browsers need a verdict.

Self-hosted reading stacks and web UIs for homelab apps are fair game when the story is "how you use it in a tab," not "how you provision the box." Lives in Chicago. Films on weekends. Cooks ramen from scratch when the queue is under control.

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