Anyone going to Smashing Conf Amsterdam this week: I'm going too, and I'm going solo, so if anyone's up for meeting new people, hit me up! #smashingconf #smashingconfams

I thought I'd learned quite a bit about accessible interfaces over the years, but @darice just demonstrated the many ways in which we're failing people with hearing impairments. One can only hope that the Gen Z/Millennial dislike of phone calls will help improve things somewhat.

I'm contributing code to Firefox, and I can just use Temporal. It's amazing.

Help, I've forgotten how to Git. JJ is nice though. #jujutsu

So this is interesting/ominous. Next.js has added tools aimed specifically at making it easier for LLM coding agents to work with the framework. They state: > it points toward a future where agents can debug and optimize apps with the same visibility as a developer. However, it's starting to […]

Today in Naming Things is Hard: Two new organisations, otherwise unrelated, but both in an area of interest to me. There's the @modal Collective (https://modal.cx), and there's the Modal Foundation (https://www.modalfoundation.org). Clearly modal things are à la mode.

This is probably still one of my spiciest engineering takes: https://vincenttunru.com/100-percent-coverage/ Surprisingly, I've had most pushback from people considering this *too lax*. For some reason, people really want to see the "true" coverage numbers, as if those are meaningful.

Fun fact: I spent years contributing to Xubuntu before learning how it was pronounced.

Karaoke is a great example of how a lack of privacy influences people's behaviour. It's way more fun when everyone feels free to make a fool of themselves, but try doing that with a camera trained on you.

I spent the day working at the library, and though I already knew, I'm feeling it even stronger now: what an amazing place. I'm glad they still exist.

Most of the time, I'm actually fairly happy with the state of the frontend ecosystem. These are not such times.

Remember when we consistently spelled it Micro$oft? Not only was that ruthless humiliation incredibly clever, but as we all know, it eventually brought us the year of the Linux Desktop. Now if we just stick with Microslop a little longer, then I'm sure Satya Nadella will course correct any day now.

I love that Rickrolling is still a thing. They don't make memes like that anymore.

The boiling frog metaphor may or may not be an urban legend, but I'm pretty sure the boiling Vincent metaphor is 100% true. In fact, I'd gradually turn up the water to boiling temperature myself if only my shower would cooperate.

Dear GitHub, I understand that this is a challenge, but could you at least show me, like, 5 or 10 files at a time? Just the prospect of pressing "Next file" hundreds of times is daunting already, let alone properly reviewing them.

Has anyone figured out how to run Home Manager on Fedora Silverblue yet? I've been unsuccessful so far and would appreciate some pointers. #fedora #silverblue #homemanager #nix #nixos

I kinda wish someone printed these as stickers for people to stick onto oversized SUVs as a guerilla campaign. @fuckcars @citylife #safestreets #urbanism #visionzero

Sure the headings might consist of images with purple-on-purple text with an empty alt attribute, but luckily the AI made sure to make this website accessible by shoving this menu in there. (Of course, it's not actually marked up as a menu. And the browser's […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

21st century life skill: Whenever you feel outraged, ask yourself: "am I just being used as fuel for the engagement machine?"

Everyone keeps arguing about how to pronounce GIF, but you know what? You're all wrong. Here's how the Dutch pronounce it. (This is not a joke — this is actually how we pronounce it.)

Vandaag stemmen! Voor het overzicht, de kandidaten met IT-expertise: PVV 39. Jan Valize GroenLinks-PvdA 32. Barbara Kathmann D66 19. Sarah El Boujdaini CDA 26. Hemin Hawezy VVD 34. Martijn Buijsse PvdD 20. Cynthia Pallandt Volt 11. Erik Kemp @erikkemp Met dank aan https://nerdvote.nl en […]

Someone help me I've installed NixOS.

Has anyone made an esoteric programming language yet that mimics cringy LinkedIn posts?

Currently at Fronteers Dark Mode, and it's such a cozy little conference. And I love the number of folks I've spoken to who say accessibility is their main focus. #fronteers #darkmode

I appreciate how Playwright gives us `test.slow()` to hide the magic number, so we don't have to feel as bad that we're just bumping the default test timeout. https://playwright.dev/docs/test-timeouts#set-timeout-for-a-single-test

Whenever you feel the urge to use the word "utilise", consider if "use" will do as well. (Hint: it always will.)

You can't tell by my actual blog, but I've written so many imaginary blog posts while in the shower.

Mastodon feature request: hide self-boosts. #mastodon

Haha OK, this is a pretty funny way to promote your VPN.

This is some top-notch deceptive design. Everyone knows most people breeze through sign-up forms: enter email, accept the terms, submit. Now take a closer look. Informed consent my ass. Clever though. Via @shtrom #DeceptiveDesign

Huh. Mozilla is hiring a VP of Community, through the Foundation, who are technically the Company's boss. Want to come make a change for how Mozilla works with outside contributors and what-not?

My work day: use Volta to install pnpm, run it, find out I need Poetry, which I can install after installing pipx. Then find out that Fedora is missing some packages I need, switch to Ubuntu, go through the whole ordeal again. Oh, but the version of Python in Ubuntu LTS is too low, so switch to […]

I feel like this one is going to be used in the #SolidProject community a lot: https://xkcd.com/3105/

"Be Yourself, but Better" — https://wearthebox.com (h/t @louisbarclay)

The conference has only just started, and I've already heard multiple references to "web" features that were introduced "by the Chrome team". Folks, if the web is a Google product, it will eventually end up at killedbygoogle.com. #jsnation

With yesterday's release of Firefox 138, vertical tabs, tab groups, and the new profile manager are now all available. I highly recommend giving them a shot; it feels like a completely new browser. https://fosstodon.org/@VincentTunru/113917408750016141

Y'all, did you see that *a single volunteer* contributed the entire Temporal implementation to #firefox? Temporal is a huge spec. Amazing work by André Bargull. https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2025/04/11/shipping-temporal.html

Code is written more often than it is read #vibecoding

Reviews of @signalapp are getting pretty rough...

If you are, or will ever be, high up in some organisation's hierarchy, *please* remember that your off-the-cuff remarks will be taken as gospel, will send people scrambling, and will override calls made by people with more domain expertise than you.

Code review is already one of the most mentally draining things at work, but I got a larger contribution to one of my personal projects, and I can't help but wonder how the maintainers of actually popular projects do it.

Me: I wouldn't use $ARGUMENT in support of $GOODTHING, as the same reasoning can be used to justify $BADTHING. Them: It is ridiculous to compare $GOODTHING and $BADTHING, you terrible person. 🤦

On the train to FOSDEM I quickly but finally bashed out a long-planned post on the Solid app I wrote that allows you to post to the Fediverse from your Solid Pod. Main takeway: cool experiment, but @activitypods have the more feasible approach for now […]

Mozilla has been talking a lot about AI, which I personally don't care much for. Luckily, that doesn't appear to be coming at the cost of Firefox development, because there are a couple of features coming up that I'm pretty excited about! The following are all […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

I love seeing comics on Mastodon in languages that I don't properly speak, and still being able to understand them because people added alt text that can be translated. (Protip: @phanpy comes with a built-in "translate alt text" button.) #alttext

Are you in the EU and do you have an iPhone or iPad? Can you help Mozilla see what the EU-mandated browser choice experience looks like? See https://community.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/help-monitor-browser-choice-in-the-eu/?utm_campaign=DMA+campaign&utm_source=Mastodon […]

I'm glad folks who need to work 80 hours a week to get their job done will teach the world a lesson or two about efficiency.