Neat! If you follow this link on Android, you get Firefox *with* uBlock Origin installed. https://addons.mozilla.org/android/addon/ublock-origin/?utm_campaign=amo-fx-android-qr&utm_content=ublock-origin&utm_source=addons.mozilla.org

My timeline is full of people asking about the goose egg memes, but the memes in question are few and far between, and I'm sad about that.

I now officially have contributed code to Firefox with the release of version 152! It was just a minor change, but after over four years of working at Mozilla, I'm still happy to have finally achieved that milestone.

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pascalchevrel/116733218244429006 > Mozilla is still a place where a motivated contributor can find a corner of the project, do meaningful work, and have a real impact — without needing to be a browser engineer or a Mozilla insider.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@VincentTunru/116637493014403066 Story of my life, to be honest.

I would've gone to bed on time, if it weren't for the multi-hour exercise that is booking a train trip to Sweden, even with an Interrail pass 😭

How long until Google offers an API to sell your products directly from the Google Search/AI UI? Free at first; later for a mere 30% cut, of course.

I just crossed Germany by train and suffered no delays, AMA.

If you've ever wondered why you need so many people to write a browser... It's shit like this: https://denodell.com/blog/browsers-treat-big-sites-differently

It's a bit hard to see because it's still a small percentage, but as far as I can see, the share of Linux use among Firefox users is growing steadily: https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware#operating-system #linux #firefox

1. Take a funny event. 2. Describe the event in a limerick. 3. It is now even funnier.

What's the most exciting software engineering thing you recently spent time learning... That isn't AI?

Just sitting in the middle of Amsterdam listening to the general soundscape, and I'm reminded that cities aren't noisy, cars ar— actually, at max 30 km/h and mostly electric, the couple of cars here aren't too bad. #urbanism

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