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That moment when you've fixed a crash, but you still need to figure out what caused the crash in order to write the commit message.

That moment when you've fixed a crash, but you still need to figure out what caused the crash in order to write the commit message.

This isn't a one-off. Fascism isn't an aberration, it's what an unchecked capitalistic system turns into, especially when reinforced by...

This isn't a one-off. Fascism isn't an aberration, it's what an unchecked capitalistic system turns into, especially when reinforced by existing systems of oppression such as cisheteropatriarchy and white supremacy. The increased wealth disparity and isolation is a fertile breeding ground for conspiracy theories that blame the even more disadvantaged.

We need to fight this. Everywhere.

I just got a job offer from an AI and crypto company who's building a Chromium browser whose tagline is "The First Browser Built for Web3...

I just got a job offer from an AI and crypto company who's building a Chromium browser whose tagline is "The First Browser Built for Web3 & Crypto".

Let me put this plainly:

Fuck that.

I don't understand why someone who says they work at "X" (by which I assume they mean Twitter) would be following me on Github 🤷

I don't understand why someone who says they work at "X" (by which I assume they mean Twitter) would be following me on Github 🤷

Since Twitter is changing its ToS tomorrow to allow every tweet to be used to train AI, I decided to delete my accounts today.And I saw that...

Since Twitter is changing its ToS tomorrow to allow every tweet to be used to train AI, I decided to delete my accounts today.

And I saw that your account settings somehow have a gender marker, which is internal and not displayed publicly. And mine said female.

I don't remember that section of the profile being there, or me setting that to female. And the text suggests that the "initial value" of that field might be AI-determined based on your tweets and profile.

So I guess thanks Elon for validating me as not a cis man? 🤷

With other -webkit prefixes, if you have something liketransform: scale(2);-webkit-transform: scale(0.5);the one that is higher in the...

With other -webkit prefixes, if you have something like

transform: scale(2);
-webkit-transform: scale(0.5);

the one that is higher in the cascade order (which for properties in the same declaration is the one that appears later) wins.

But as far as I can tell, none of those other prefixes properties have a behavior difference like with line-clamp, where the prefixed version has a dependence on other properties that isn't there in the unprefixed version.

Hey! CSS developers! I want to hear from you.I'm improving the way line clamping works in Chrome and in the specs. The existing...

Hey! CSS developers! I want to hear from you.

I'm improving the way line clamping works in Chrome and in the specs. The existing -webkit-line-clamp property is a mess, because it will only do something if you have other properties (which are legacy versions of flexbox properties), and we can't fix that because of web compat. But we can add a new line-clamp property without those issues!

But right now I'm dealing with what should happen if you have both properties set on the same element:

display: block;
line-clamp: 3;
-webkit-line-clamp: 4;

(Note that if we remove line-clamp: 3, this wouldn't clamp, because display: block prevents -webkit-line-clamp from working.)

So what do you think should happen?

#css #CSSWG

Clamps to 3 lines
Clamps to 4 lines
Doesn't clamp

Okay, so not all of the formatting that glitch-soc lets you have is supported by stock Mastodon (I used the <sub> tag in the previous...

Okay, so not all of the formatting that glitch-soc lets you have is supported by stock Mastodon (I used the <sub> tag in the previous toot, and stock Masto gets rid of it.)

After my Mastodon server being down for like 16 hours because I suck at sysadmining, I think I now can use rich text in toots. I hope this...

After my Mastodon server being down for like 16 hours because I suck at sysadmining, I think I now can use rich text in toots. _{I hope this works at least!}

I didn't realize you could order something like this at a Japanese shrine 👀 ⛩️

I didn't realize you could order something like this at a Japanese shrine 👀 ⛩️

That moment when you're working on some slides that are supposed to showcase the thing you've been implementing in Chromium for a...

That moment when you're working on some slides that are supposed to showcase the thing you've been implementing in Chromium for a while... and you find out you have a bug because some of this stuff you're trying to showcase ain't working.

In less than 30 minutes I'll be running a breakout session about WinterCG in TPAC. You can join remotely if you're interested!...

In less than 30 minutes I'll be running a breakout session about WinterCG in TPAC. You can join remotely if you're interested! https://people.igalia.com/abotella/pub/TPAC-2024-WinterCG/ #tpac2024

That moment when it's 8 PM on Friday, before an international trip you're taking on Sunday, and you find out that a patch you...

That moment when it's 8 PM on Friday, before an international trip you're taking on Sunday, and you find out that a patch you committed caused a memory regression in Chromium.

Today I was asked by a friend about the work I'm doing in specifying the AsyncContext stage 2 JS proposal.I described it as something...

Today I was asked by a friend about the work I'm doing in specifying the AsyncContext stage 2 JS proposal.

I described it as something that will only be useful for incredibly specialized libraries, and that the typical developer won't give a fuck about. And my job lately is to make sure they don't have to give a fuck about it.

Which is way harder than it sounds.

Did you know that Chrome's user agent stylesheet uses a `__qem` unit?No, it's not a CSS unit, or at least not one you can use in...

Did you know that Chrome's user agent stylesheet uses a `__qem` unit?

No, it's not a CSS unit, or at least not one you can use in your code. It's part of the curse that are the margin collapsing quirks.

As part of implementing line-clamp in Chrome, I've had to learn about CSS margin collapsing, and the various margin collapsing quirks in...

As part of implementing line-clamp in Chrome, I've had to learn about CSS margin collapsing, and the various margin collapsing quirks in quirks mode... and let me tell you, some of that stuff is cursed as fuck.

In case you want to hear me interviewed by @Meyerweb about the stuff I'm working on related to line-clamp in Chromium, while sounding...

In case you want to hear me interviewed by @Meyerweb about the stuff I'm working on related to line-clamp in Chromium, while sounding completely stilted and nervous (and tired from taking care of the organization of the face-to-face), go check this out I guess!

https://floss.social/@igalia/112644550606754440

This week I'm helping organize a CSS Working Group Face-to-face meeting at @igalia's office in A Coruña, Spain. It's been a bit...

This week I'm helping organize a CSS Working Group Face-to-face meeting at @igalia's office in A Coruña, Spain. It's been a bit hectic, but it seems like almost everything is ready now for the event to start tomorrow.

Since this seems to be easy to miss even though it's been in my profile here and in other places for a while: hey, I'm non-binary,...

Since this seems to be easy to miss even though it's been in my profile here and in other places for a while: hey, I'm non-binary, and my pronouns are they/them.

Just wanted to make you aware of that fact, if you weren't before.

Today, in random linguistics thoughts of a possibly-ADHD brain:I wonder when the name Stephen had to have entered the English language,...

Today, in random linguistics thoughts of a possibly-ADHD brain:

I wonder when the name Stephen had to have entered the English language, given that the sound /f/ in Greek "Stephanos" became /v/ in English.

In Old English /f/ and /v/ were not distinct phonemes – instead, /v/ is how /f/ was pronounced between vowels. And I think /f/ and /v/ only became separate phonemes after the Norman conquest of England, with a bunch of French loanwords entering the language?