







Welcome to Padding Labs status page for real-time and historical data on system performance.
Padding Labs
Padding Labs builds friendly apps for the open internet, so your identity, your data, and your name stay yours.

Arabica Social status
Welcome to Arabica Social status page for real-time and historical data on system performance.

10 Linux Tweaks I Make on Every New Home Lab Server
These are the Linux configuration changes I make on every new home lab server to improve security, reliability, monitoring, logging, and long-term maintenance.

Patchwork Notebook
Internal notes from our ongoing research into soft, softer and softest software

The CSS Selection - 2026 Edition - Project Wallace
The CSS Selection shows real-world CSS usage from over 100,000 websites and looks at the most important metrics.

Wayland vs X11: 2026 Comparison
The Linux display server landscape has been evolving dramatically over the past decade. Wayland,...


Sikuli: using GUI screenshots for search and automation
Usability is one of the factors that determines the success of a software system. Aiming to improve it’s usability, it is necessary to evaluate the interfaces using scientific evaluation methods, like questionnaires. Often the results of these ...

Server Status
Report generated: 2026-08-02 05:39:00 UTC (uptime: 4 days, 20:26:21, kernel: 6.8.0-136-generic)
Reading a Performance Profile: Field Guide
An interactive field guide to the Chrome DevTools Performance panel: waterfall, flame chart, LCP, CLS, INP, and the Insights panel.

schalkneethling/css-benchpress
css-benchpress aims to help developers and tooling authors discover where CSS patterns become performance problems by growing realistic web-platform test cases until measurable regressions appear.
From building an AI research tool to prompting the research itself
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Dispatch
An occasional update on the lab’s latest findings, appearances, and happenings.

It's that time of the week again! Today, we're sharing Chalk, a document editor that shows how apps that need fine-grained permissioning can be built on spaces. Chalk is built on our last three releases!
Habitat's road to release: 04 Chalk
habitat.leaflet.pub