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.