Fiddler in 2026

I’ve shared the stories behind the Fiddler Web Debugger a fair bit over the years, in the Fiddler Book, in a talk at the CodeMash conference in 2015, and on this blog. It features prominently in my to-be-completed (some day?) memoir, and I’ve enjoyed telling Fiddler stories to folks who ask over the years. (I’ve also written a ton of content about using Fiddler.) Over two decades, what was once a little side project came to influence a very meaningful percentage of my life, including where I live today and so many of my life’s experiences. Receiving the Engineering Excellence Award for Fiddler, circa 2007 On Monday morning, I got a ping from someone from Progress Software, acquirers of Telerik in 2014, after Telerik acquired Fiddler (and for a few years, me) back in 2012. They asked for an email address to which they could send a note. “This isn’t gonna be good“, I assumed. Correctly. After I left Telerik for Google in 2016, development on the “Fiddler Classic” application had…