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Highlighting Image Accessibility on Mastodon
Some time ago, I published user styles to visually highlight images on Twitter that didn’t have alt text — this was in the time before the “ALT” badge and the much...
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ephemeral success
Good evening, patient hackers :) Today finishes off my series on implementing ephemerons in a garbage collector.Last time, we had a working solution for ephemerons, but it involved recursively visiting...
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Video decoding in GStreamer with Vulkan Video extension (part 2)
Its has been a while since I reported my tinkering with the Vulkan Video provisional extension. Now the specification will have its final release soon_ish_, and also there has been...
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Native call stack profiling (3/3): 2022 work in V8
This is the last blog post of the series. In first post I presented some concepts of call stack profiling, and why it is useful. In second post I reviewed...
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Styling a ‘pre’ that contains a ‘code’
I’ve just committed my first :has() selector to production CSS and want to share it, so I will! But first, a little context that will feel familiar to nerds like...
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Surreal Holiday
Surreal Holiday Hello, yes, I had a heart attack. In the middle of the night last Tuesday (technically Wednesday morning), I had a heart attack. Ambulance, EKGs - you get...
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GStreamer compilation with third party libraries
Suppose that you have to hack a GStreamer element which requires a library that is not (yet) packaged by your distribution, nor wrapped as a Meson’s subproject. How do you...
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An Intro to Trigonometric CSS Functions
While perusing the December 2022 post from web.dev about what's new in the web platform, the addition of Trigonometric CSS functions in Firefox caught my eye. Geometry and trigonometry were...
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The NASCAR Model
The NASCAR Model Let's talk about interesting solutions to problems and how we can (today) begin to change things... Over the past two years I’ve gone into a whole lot...
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Turnips in the wild (Part 3)
This is the third part of my “Turnips in the wild” blog post series where I describe how I found and fixed graphical issues in the Mesa Turnip Vulkan driver...
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2022 Review – Igalia Web Platform Team
2022 was a good year for the Web Platform team in Igalia in a lot of ways. We worked on some really interesting Web technologies, and explored some really interesting...
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Cat’s Panic
It’s been 8 years since the last time I wrote a videogame just for personal fun. As it’s now become a tradition, I took advantage of the extra focused personal...
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