Reposted by Philipp HanckePatrick Brosset @patrickbrosset.com · 07/10/2026How to capture device audio on the web today? 🎵🔊 getUserMedia() is not for audio only and forces users to go through a screen sharing option. Not great for audio use cases (notetaking, music, ...) We want to fix this. We have a proposal and would love your input ♥️patrickbrosset.comPatrick - Help us shape device audio capture on the webCapturing device audio only on the web today isn't great. getDisplayMedia doesn't only share audio, and forces users to select a screen to share. We want to improve this experience, and we have a prop... 3103
Reposted by Philipp HanckewebrtcHacks @webrtchacks.com · 06/10/2026New post: Google Chrome downloads a new neural AEC while you are not looking Philipp Hancke reverse engineers the model, tests it against AEC3, and asks why other browsers don't get the weights. webrtchacks.com/chrome-neura...webrtchacks.comGoogle Chrome downloads a new neural AEC while you are not lookingInside Chrome's neural echo estimator: how it works, what AEC and speech-recognition tests show, and why model delivery matters for WebRTC developers. 031
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 29/09/2026@ashleywolf.bsky.social you might know. Is there a better solution to rate limiting than github.com/dvelton/cont... 010
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 29/09/2026github should allow setting up limits for first-time contributors ... 111
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 29/09/2026look at @pion.ly ... 542 "contributions" today.... 200
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 28/09/2026but it can imitate Lorenzo-style because that was part of its training data! 010
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 28/09/2026so... when do you port your BWE to C so Lorenzo finally gets BWE from server to client? 100
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Oh i heard the results of someone agreeing to "ok, you can try rewriting the webrtc stack". Unsurprisingly it did not go well... 110
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 23/09/2026so in groups.google.com/a/chromium.o... Chrome "decided" to follow Firefox (and Safari. Then backpedaled on outbound-rtp (reappeared) and "tweaked" inbound-rtp: github.com/w3c/webrtc-s... All because someone loudly insisted the spec is right and the WPT are wrong (and that was not me!)groups.google.comIntent to Ship: [WebRTC getStats] Align implementations on when RTP stats should be created 000
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Your BORG accountant will assist you. Do not be alarmed about those injection tubes... 000
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 16/09/2026would it change your vote on joining? A decade late given prior cadence but ... if Canada joins, can you say no? 100
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 15/09/2026www.apple.com/de/safari/sw... with the usual set of tracking url parameters. Which include "dede-heroart-static-1200x628" so they snooped on my screen size and language, that must be this privacy focus! Looks like this always lists Google Docs as use case first...apple.comWechsel zu SafariSafari kommt mit Datenschutzfeatures, die Website-übergreifendes Tracking verhindern, deine IP-Adresse vor bekannten Trackern verbergen und mehr. 110
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Hey @infrequently.org what do you think of this claim of a facebook ad that Safari is the faster for Google Docs compared to Chrome? 100
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Did they extend the experiment from www.sfgate.com/tech/article...? 😆sfgate.comWhy Google told drivers to drive a longer way on purposeA Google Research study shows one way to improve traffic congestion. 010
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 07/09/2026LLMs listened to it... err... it is part of their training corpus! They are just incredibly fast at taking it from a vague (!) "grep" to step 9. printf debugging seems to be one of their favorites! They will find many nice words for step 10 too because they are graded on producing nice words. 110
Reposted by Philipp HanckePatricia Aas 🐢🏳️🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I realize I’m not a Real Engineer in the structural engineering manner. But if a structural engineer started vibing the earthquake safety stuff I would worry. - how much weight can this bridge take? - ChatGPT says 50 tons, that should be enough - how did it come to that number? 🤷🏻♀️ 2232
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 07/09/2026do those "developers" write software that is "load-bearing" in that sense? No. Would they? Most likely not. But different from the group that is becoming problematic now :-| 100
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 07/09/2026somehow software developers (note the choice of words) pretended this did not apply to them. Even though "software engineering" is a quite well defined discipline. 110
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Well there is a reason "Real Engineers" are trying to protect that title, e.g. Germany has a Ingenieurgesetz. Part of the curriculum for obtaining the right to call yourself explains you that you can go to jail if you screw up and someone dies as a consequence. 111
Reposted by Philipp Hanckemediasoup SFU @mediasoup-sfu.bsky.social · 27/08/2026mediasoup-client 3.23.0 has been released and it comes with a new API to control RTP extensions: mediasoup.discourse.group/t/mediasoup-...mediasoup.discourse.groupmediasoup-client 3.23.0 released with RTP extension control APImediasoup-client 3.23.0 comes with a new feature and a breaking change: [BREAKING CHANGE] transport.produce(): Remove headerExtensionOptions. DeviceOptions: Add forcedRtpExtensions option, which is ... 012
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Yup, you can still improve #webrtc encoder performance by 1% easily and wait, why is H264 good at talking heads with background blur? webrtchacks.com/comparing-we... (disclaimer: rooting for AV1)webrtchacks.comComparing WebRTC video codecs with a proper dataset - webrtcHacksStumbling over Microsoft’s Video Conferencing Dataset (VCD) I asked Claude to take on a video codec engineer’s favorite hot take: compare video codecs. It did a fairly good writeup using the tooling p... 010
Reposted by Philipp HanckeAlex Russell @infrequently.org · 26/08/2026Privacy: That's (something other vendors bring to the) iPhone: mysk.blog/2026/08/25/r...mysk.blogThoughts on Responsible DisclosureWe recently disclosed three WebKit issues that can leak a user’s DNS traffic or reveal their real IP address, even when the browser is configured to route traffic through a proxy. The issues affected ... 151
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 26/08/2026webrtchacks.com/apples-not-s... -- 2021 called and wants its lessons about IP leakage back!webrtchacks.comApple's not so private relay fails with WebRTC - webrtcHacksApple released iOS 15 with iCloud Private Relay broken for WebRTC - it still divulges your IP address. This post walks through why and how the WebRTC API's use your IP address information and how you ... 011
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 10/08/2026LNA. Wait until WebRTC gets added to it ... scans UDP ports too! 000
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 03/08/2026oh that is the german page for the public keeping tabs on the people they voted for (much to the dismay of the latter) but I confused it with fragdenstaat.de!fragdenstaat.deFragDenStaat – Portal für InformationsfreiheitFragen Sie Dokumente und Akten von mehr als 40.000 Behörden kostenlos an. Das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (IFG) gibt Ihnen Zugang zu staatlichen Informationen. 100
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Wait, you folks up north did not know the (arguably) somewhat complicated word "Abgeordnetenwatch"? That is so 2004-ish! 100
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 02/08/2026that assumes and audience you understand well enough that more than half of them does not stop reading midway ;-) 000
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 30/07/2026you are doing it wrong. Instead of keeping close tabs, just lend your ear to to the people still trying to fight the system. For money! 000
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 21/07/2026but they "invented" looking up the caller's phone number and metadata (yours, like the last call or emails) 25+ years after folks figured out this is cool about ISDN! 000
Reposted by Philipp HanckePatrick Brosset @patrickbrosset.com · 15/07/2026Great read! These resonate a lot with me: > A Web platform without polyfills would be a stagnant platform > Without polyfills, [...], a single browser has undue power to hold back the Web > Developers being able to use web features before wide availability is a win for the Web as a whole 1113
Reposted by Philipp HanckeAlex Russell @infrequently.org · 06/07/2026Apple keeps Safari on a starvation budget and blocks potential competitors while skimming *tens of billions* in profit per year from developer pain and user inconvenience. The result is a buggier, slower web. You do not have to hand it to them: infrequently.org/2026/07/abject-p…infrequently.orgAbject Praise - Infrequently NotedUntil Apple's boot is removed from the web's face, you never have to hand it to them. 092
Reposted by Philipp HanckeIntentToShip @intenttoship.dev · 30/06/2026Blink: Intent to Experiment: WebRTC Data Channel: SCTP Negotiation Acceleration Protocolgroups.google.comBlink: Intent to Experiment: WebRTC Data Channel: SCTP Negotiation Acceleration ProtocolBlink: Intent to Experiment: WebRTC Data Channel: SCTP Negotiation Acceleration Protocol 121
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 29/06/2026that calls for a blog post from @infrequently.org! (which may already have been written) 110
Reposted by Philipp HanckeAlex Russell @infrequently.org · 17/06/2026Cope in the comments about Safari getting trounced *in Apple's own benchmarks* by an early iOS/Blink bring-up is reaching heretofore unseen levels. Incredible scenes. 171
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 16/06/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aGh... -- what the heck and why not!youtube.comWhat the heck is the event loop anyway? | Philip Roberts | JSConf EUYouTube video by JSConf 040
Reposted by Philipp HanckewebrtcHacks @webrtchacks.com · 02/06/2026New post: Vibe-coding #WebRTC by Philipp Hancke - using AI to tackle long-standing WebRTC issues and ship fixes across libWebRTC, ChromiumDev , pion, and firefox without handing taste over to the minionswebrtchacks.comVibe-coding WebRTC - webrtcHacksWell, that title is clickbait for Hacker News. The honest title would have been “using AI to tackle long-standing WebRTC issues.” Posts on webrtcHacks are rare these days, and in German we would say… 261
Reposted by Philipp HanckeAlex Russell @infrequently.org · 20/05/2026TFW a western youtuber discovers the kinds of devices that have been selling by the billions for a decade: youtu.be/5sC5ys31AEg 031
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Some of this shifts later to codereview. And I have found myself to be more open to feedback from reviewers because the effort I have to put in after what I have what I wanted lowered. 000
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 17/05/2026what do you think why so many folks with AI experience went to that org 🤔 000
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Zoom just decided not to care about the rtcp-fb:* from RFC 4585. Almost 20 years beat your puny 12 years! 010
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 07/05/2026well, Firefox too often fails to show actual alternatives... 010
Philipp Hancke @hcornflower.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Rephrase that in terms of "hot take Henrik" and "lukewarm" please? 010
