Shahzeb Umer
Founder, BumbleTap · keyboard-first tinkerer
Shahzeb is interested in a little of everything and can never quite settle on one thing — which is exactly how BumbleTap came about. It started as a fix for the browser actions he caught himself repeating all day, and grew into an extension that turns any keystroke into an action on any site. He writes Keystrokes about whatever he's currently curious about — the machinery behind the browser, automations worth stealing, and the occasional tangent — because sticking to a single subject was never really the plan.
Latest by Shahzeb
Half My AI Crawler Traffic Wasn't AI Crawlers
I was one query away from publishing that AI assistants fetch this site 80 times for every Google click. One extra field in the query showed that half the traffic failed to verify and that I'd been wrong in three separate ways. The honest number is 11.
Chrome Auto Browse: The Hard Part Isn't the AI
Auto Browse is capped at 20 requests a day, exposed to prompt injection, and running inside your logged-in sessions. The model isn't the hard part.
You Can't Re-Enable an Unsupported Chrome Extension
No toggle, no policy, no flag, no switch — every route was closed between Chrome 138 and 151. Here is what replaces it, and the one workaround to skip.
Keyboard Shortcuts Are Software's Most Underrated Feature
Shortcuts don't lose roadmap fights because they're low value. They lose because they emit no analytics, can't be discovered, and never demo well.
Why Open Source Your Product? The Strategic Case
Open sourcing is a distribution and trust decision with real costs, not an ethical one. A framework for deciding, and why the answer is often no.
Chrome Deletes the Last Manifest V2 Extensions on August 31
The 'your extensions die on August 31' headlines are a year late: Manifest V2 stopped running in July 2025. You can't re-enable it, but you can replace it.
Why Chrome Uses So Much RAM: Inside Its Memory Management
Chrome isn't leaking. Site Isolation, V8's heap and hidden caches explain the number, and why your task manager can't name the tab responsible.
Run Code on Any Webpage with Keyboard Shortcuts
Bind a key to run your own JavaScript on any site. No sandbox to set up, it works on strict-CSP pages, and nothing ever leaves your browser.
How to Create Keyboard Shortcuts for Any Website
Bind any key to a click on any button on any website, with no code, using a free Chrome extension that keeps working after the site is redesigned.
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