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💻 Designer & Product Manager. 🕸️ Now: Web Platform @ Igalia. Prev: Microsoft Edge. 📚 Author of Design for Developers. 🔮 Sassy web witch & actual witch. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Seattle gal in England. 💍 @jhey.dev https://seaotta.dev
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I love how this site is unfolding. Not rushing it. Not sure when it'll launch. But I like where it's going.

Switching to PM tasks as I fall into the "I've been looking at this site for too long and hate my design" trap.

Nice browser extension forcing Wikipedia to render formulas using native MathML browser support instead of images, making them more accessible, allowing selection, copying and so on: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/nativ... (and, of course, h/t to @igalia.com for their work on MathML)

Anyone got a good dark/light mode toggle tutorial? This is the first time I'm doing this.

Servo’s Outreachy intern shares his journey, lessons learned, and what he wishes he knew before diving into browsers and open source. Check out his journey over on his blog below. chickenleaf.wordpress.com/2025/01/20/h...

Can't help but feel like we're hurtling into this world of AI hell because if you don't use AI tools then you'll fall behind and also the investors want to see AI AI AI! So keep using AI! And no one at a high enough level is pulling an Ian Malcom and asking if we should.

Does your mom text the family chat to let you know survivor came out 25 years ago or are you a normal family? (I love my mom very much but her texts sometimes make me lol because they're so random)

I've gone to the gym 8 weeks in a row (thank u Swarm check-ins) and that is an accomplishment for me.

This year’s State of the Browser #SotB2025 is 4 weeks this Saturday! Tickets are selling faster this month than all the prior months together. We don’t have discounts, instead we let you choose how much to pay with a suggested price and a minimum price. 2025.stateofthebrowser.com/tickets/ 1/n

It’s more important than ever for Europe to fund strategic open source projects for open, decentralized communication systems (like Matrix) and application platforms/the open web (like Servo). We all need to be in control of our own computers, and it makes sense to fund as defense spending.

Spent the weekend birding, baking bread, reading (finished Children of Dune, it got real weird), and we went to a terrarium workshop. I like this offline life.

We've been busy making starter packs for all the speakers from the last 8 conferences. You can view the schedules and recorded talks for those conferences here. Starter packs to follow in the thread!

give me an edit post button

Grumpily admitting that going on walks isn't enough for me, but my pilates and barre classes help my mood.

It's such a shame that it's possible to have areas of the platform like accessibility, internationalization, print, math and svg that just don't get the love from implementers. I'm really glad we have at least a few things like NLNet funding accessibility work: blogs.igalia.com/mrego/solvin...

Are you looking for a first experience in Open Source professional coding? Apply to be a part of our Coding Experience (CE) program! All CE positions are paid, remote-friendly, and entail 450 hours of hands-on work in one of six different teams. Learn more: igalia.com/coding-experience/

Absolutely wild to me that registering to vote affects your credit score in the UK. At least that's what Monzo says.

ICYMI: The new Web Witch Weekly is out! In this issue: Navigating the web platform, Interop 2025, the abysmal state of the web on mobile, correcting image perspective in Figma, can you really die of a broken heart? and more! webwitchweekly.beehiiv.com/p/web-witch-...

Cons of living abroad: I'm anxious and using Rover to find someone to watch the pup for a night stresses me out.

Which British Airways interface are we going to get today? The new one? Or the old one? Who knows!

When should you use inline CSS styles? Curious to hear thoughts. I don't think they're needed 99% of the time except for that 1% where you need ultimate control.

Servo Weekly Report Nº25 Highlights from the last week: - Implemented overflow scroll support for different axes - Basic implementation of size keywords on `flex-basis` - servoshell improvements, moving to egui intead of tinyfiledialogs

Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

Gecko Wolvic 1.8.1 and Chromium Wolvic 1.2.1 Released wolvic.com/blog/release...

Just leaving this here open.spotify.com/track/1Ztfx8...

I implore you all to listen to BBC Radio's Witch podcast because it is truly an absolutely stellar listen that ties in cultural, historical and political context. It is a history lesson as much as a cultural one. The feudalism to capitalism bit I just listened to is way too relevant.

How it feels logging on these days and seeing what fresh new hell of an executive order is being reported on 8 hours ahead of my Seattle fam.

This month in Servo… 🕸️🪟 new webview API 🕵️🌲 :host and <slot> 🌈🎨 relative CSS colors 🖌️🗜️ canvas to JPEG/WebP/blob 🛜💨 more efficient networking servo.org/blog/2025/02...

Big win for Servo! Servo now passes 94.9% of Web Platform Tests for CSS2 Tables, surpassing Blink! 🎉 Big congrats to the team for their incredible progress on table support over the past year. #OpenSource

got tired of opening photoshop just to use the perspective warp tool for four seconds, so I made a Figma plugin that does all that for me :) henry.codes/writing/corr...

If you are in the vicinity of Bedford and or London and would like to join my inaugural dinner club I'm trying to launch (thinking the first one in March) let me know. Trying to get folks in tech (any part of tech: marketing, design, engineering, admin) together to make connections in person.

Let’s say that again for the people in the back THEY’RE MANUFACTURING THE CRISES FOR THEIR END GOAL

Stopped writing my to do list half way through a task, so said task is only half written and I don't know what it was supposed to be. Happy Monday.

Rink, the calculator with unit conversions and dimensional analysis, works pretty much perfectly in Servo now that we have text input support! rinkcalc.app