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• Post #4106353

  Solidarity with the people of Berlin today, against hate.

• Post #3697575

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/116889756460555978 There is literally a whole Black Mirror episode about why this is a terrible idea.

• Post #3592235

  I’m not celebrating anything until the fascists are out, and being prosecuted for their many crimes.

• Post #2161310

  Reminder : if you live in England and you’re planning to vote in the local elections today, take an acceptable form of ID. https://www.gov.uk/how-to-vote/photo-id-youll-need 🗳️

• Post #2090659

  Wrapping up the MDN Product Advisory Board meeting in NYC with a group photo. Photo by @robertnyman. Also featuring Patrick Kettner, Meggin Kearney, Jory Burson, Chris Mills, Kadir Topal, @dontcallmeDOM, and chaired by the inimitable Ali Spivak. Great group of people helping to guide development of MDN as a cross-browser resources for web developers. Very proud to be a part of this effort. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/MDN_Product_Advisory_Board

• Post #1952307

  Today is a big day. The Ethical Web Principles has been published as a W3C Statement, meaning it’s now fully endorsed by the W3C. More info here: https://www.w3.org/news/2024/ethical-web-principles-is-a-w3c-statement/ #EthicalWebPrinciples These principles already have started to influence the development of web specifications percolating through the W3C, both directly and via other guidelines docs like the Design Principles and Privacy Principles. Kudos to @hadleybeeman, @rhiaro and the rest o...

• Post #1952295

  A web browser should *NEVER* be able to look inside your clipboard without an explicit user action (such as ctrl-v). Honestly, this should not be a controversial statement. Microsoft Edge is one of the browsers that ships this dangerous capability. Here is the dialog you need to hunt for to turn this API off.

• Post #1944540

  Images from the Sanrio exhibit I managed to see in Tokyo, "The Beginning of Kawaii." I especially like the "Happy Something" lunch box! This exhibit runs until June at the Mori Arts Center Gallery. (Bonus: you get a great view from the 52nd floor of the Mori tower in Roppongi.) https://macg.roppongihills.com/en/exhibitions/sanrio-final-ex/

• Post #1916790

  For the avoidance of doubt: nothing changes. MAGA is still a hate cult. Climate change is still real. Earth is still round. Vaccines are still effective. Trans and non-binary people are valid. Women are people. Black lives matter. Love is love. No person is illegal. Hold your ground. Double down.

• Post #1578381

  Getting a COVID jab. BRB. 💉

• Post #1578380

  “Pokémon Assets” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gvvnpl5kno

• Post #1578379

  Ok! Off to China.

• Post #1578378

  Ah Gatwick. It’s like someone took a regular airport and turned up the Hell.

• Post #1578377

  My ride for the next 11 hours is here. Next stop, Shanghai. On Sunday I’ll be taking the high speed train to Hangzhou for W3C’s Advisory Committee meeting – and our @ab face-to-face.

• Post #1578376

  I made it to Shanghai. Entering China without needing to get a visa first feels like a super power. Currently standing around waiting for the airport maglev to open. I could just take the metro but … maglev!

• Post #1578375

  On my way to Shanghai Hongqiao station (on Shanghai’s great metro 🚇 - that accepts tap-to-pay!) to catch a high speed train to Hangzhou 🚄.

• Post #1578374

  Hidde @hdv kicking off the @w3cdevs developer meet-up in Hangzhou, preceding our Advisory Committee and @ab meeting week. Who better to cover the topic of AI and the Web, and web standards - the good, the bad and the ugly?

• Post #1578373

  Distributed some pins to @ab members present at this week’s @w3c Advisory Committee meeting week. (Thanks to @amyvdh !)

• Post #1578370

  Delivered my talk on C2PA to the "Web Evolve" @w3c event here in Hangzhou. (There was human-powered translation provided.) https://www.w3.org/events/happenings/2026/webevolve-w3c-open-day-web-standards-forum/

• Post #1092810

  Managed to snag a (signed!) copy of Diversifying Open Source from the amazing Paloma Oliveira at #FOSSBackstage

• Post #1088945

  Good luck with your election today, Hungary! 🇭🇺 (And please don’t re-elect the fascist. 🙏)

• Post #999035

  State of the Browser kicking off in London and I’ve already seen so many lovely web people I know. The room is packed and it's also great to see how many hands went up when @dletorey asked “who is here for the first time?” #stateofthebrowser

• Post #991740

  Learning about WebViews at the #FOSDEM Browsers & Web Platform dev room, including the https://caniwebview.com site that (much like CanIUse) tells developers which features are available in which webviews – using BCD data maintained by @openwebdocs (which was presented earlier by @patrickbrosset).

• Post #945976

  If AI is so great, why does it always seem to be on the side of fascism? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yj97yd6v5o

• Post #935997

  Signed up for "Making Tax Digital." Wasn't tax already digital? Why did it need to be more digital than it was before?

• Post #935994

  “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie review – bland screensaver of a movie that’s actually worse than AI” https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/31/the-super-mario-galaxy-movie-review-sequel-video-game-chris-pratt-charlie-day I have no intention of watching this film, but I love that “worse than AI” is now a bar by which we universally recognise mediocrity.

• Post #935993

  Liftoff! Nice. 🚀

• Post #935992

  The end of the time vortex means my regular 8am Thursday call with Korea is now at 9am – which has thrown my *whole morning* off!

• Post #935991

  All filters in house cleaned. 🧽 Time to go see art. 🖼️

• Post #916584

  In other news, the UN recently released a new report on “Making technical standards work for humanity - New pathways for incorporating international human rights into standards development for digital technologies”. Part of the intro to the report notes how the “W3C has published a statement on Ethical Web Principles that [...] puts internationally recognized human rights at the core of the web platform” which is work I drove, and words I wrote. 😊 https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/tools-and-re...