Given the actions Twitter took in the last week to incite violence against scientists, ban reporters from the platform, and disband their Trust & Safety Council the night before a key meeting — I’m not posting or replying on Twitter anymore.
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Help the choose the syntax for CSS Nesting. This article will walk you through the three options currently under consideration. Read through them, and take a one question survey to weigh in.
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Safari Technology Preview 160 is now available with updates to Web Inspector, CSS, Rendering, Web Animations, Media, JavaScript, a lot of Web API changes, and more.
webkit.org/blog/13639/rel
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Safari 16.2 is out today!
• `font-variant-alternates`: annotation(), character-variant(), ornaments(), styleset(), stylistic(), swash(), along with the associated @font-feature-values at-rules
• `last baseline` in Flexbox & Grid
• lots of fixes
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And no, it’s not because of that tweet alone. It’s because of all of it, especially tonight’s news: “Twitter on Monday night abruptly dissolved its Trust and Safety Council… unraveling years of work to make the social network safer and more civil”
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I’m done. The owner of this platform is calling for violence against scientists.
Find me on Mastodon:
front-end.social/@jensimmons.
We should all leave. Completely leave. Well, unless you want to live under white supremacy & eugenics.
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NEW: New York City has just issued an advisory for everyone to wear a mask in public spaces because COVID levels are high in all 5 boroughs. #BringBackMasks
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Today @NYCHealthCommr issued an advisory as NYC faces high levels of COVID-19, flu and RSV. New Yorkers are strongly urged to wear masks in public indoor settings and crowded outdoor settings: on.nyc.gov/3ULqGDZ
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🔑 Huge news! Google’s announced that passkeys are available in Google Chrome 108. So we have iOS, iPadOS, macOS, Safari, and Chrome with support.
If you’re responsible for a website or app, or its authentication story, it’s time to look at passkeys.
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I believe people are better off when we work together, help each other, and solve problems together. This is called living in a society. If I wanted to live in a "hey, everyone fend for yourself" atmosphere, I'd go live off the grid in the woods somewhere.
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Fecal bacteria aren’t going away, so we’re going to stop treating your municipal water. Individual actions remain key, so ask your doctor if boiling your water is right for you.
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So @Harvard just sent out an email that says "COVID is not going away"... and then cancelling all COVID tracing and mitigation measures university wide. Brilliant.
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🙌🏽 Incredible news. This is long overdue justice for Brittney Griner.
I am glad she is free and will soon be reunited with her family, diplomacy works!
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Moments ago I spoke to Brittney Griner.
She is safe.
She is on a plane.
She is on her way home.
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I don’t understand how COVID is spiking again after we’ve tried everything from pretending it’s over to pretending it never happened
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Thursday (TOMORROW) we support the strike!!! no links, no clicks, no wordle, no spelling bee, no cooking app, no crossword, NO CLICKS!!!!!
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Today we were ready to work for as long as it took to reach a fair deal, but management walked away from the table with five hours to go. It’s official: @NYTimesGuild members are walking out for 24 hours on Thursday. We know what we’re worth.
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Apple today introduced three advanced security features focused on protecting against threats to user data in the cloud:
• iMessage Contact Key Verification
• Security Keys for Apple ID
• Advanced Data Protection for iCloud
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The State of CSS 2022 Survey Results are live, and there's even more to explore this year around!
Come check out the many, many new CSS features that are right around the corner!
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How many companies are still keeping the same diversity commitments from 2020? I’m genuinely curious
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It’s almost like the deliberate White House effort to normalize mass infection and mass death, end public health measures and largely disappear the pandemic has led people to substantially underestimate the ongoing risk to themselves and their families and community members
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We need more seniors to get the new COVID vaccination, which is free and convenient — available in 70,000+ locations without a wait. twitter.com/EricTopol/stat…
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New CDC “community levels” are out
Under the pre-Feb 25th guidance, universal indoor masking would be recommended in 81% of counties. Under the new guidance, universal indoor masking is recommended in 6% of counties.
covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra
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Sorry, I should have linked directly to the article.
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Every developer working in the web should know how to approach thinking through what’s on the page — how to turn content into boxes.
This is a must read from Lara Aigmüller.
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Thinking about the confusion over the right to speak vs the right to abuse.
It’s quite clear in case law.
It’s quite confused in our shared culture.
There are fantastic books that get into the complexity of Constitutional law & the 1st Amendment. I recommend reading one.
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If Investigation projects were scored separately, instead of mixed with the browser scores, the Interop 2022 results would be:
• Chrome Dev: 92
• Firefox Nightly: 92
• Safari Technology Preview: 98
• Group investigations: 58
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The Investigation projects count for 10% of the overall score. And are still only at 58% complete.
Which means each browser’s % of passing tests is much higher than the big numbers at the top…
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Finally, the Interop 2022 Investigation Projects are reporting on the progress they’ve made so that work can be counted in the scores.
wpt.fyi/interop-2022
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In case you are wondering — the WebKit and Senior WebKit engineers implement new web technology in WebKit. The screener triages incoming bug reports, figures out what we should do, and brings them to the attention of the right people. The Safari engineer builds new UI for Safari.
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Want to work on a web browser?
- WebKit Platform Experience Engineer
jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/
- Senior WebKit Platform Experience Engineer
jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/
- Safari/Webkit Screener
jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/
- Software Engineer, Safari UI
jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/
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Yay, Container Queries are coming to Firefox 109! Once that ships, support will exist in all three browser engines.
Now to just wait for support to reach all the Chromium browsers on mobile. caniuse.com/css-container-
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Container queries are enabled on latest @FirefoxNightly (109.0a1 (2022-11-22)) 
Read about it on @MozDevNet : developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web
We added a few features to help you to use them 
Read about it on @MozDevNet : developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web
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Oh, this is a sweet blast from the past that I stumbled across this morning.
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Give it up for @jensimmons and @thewebahead, #netawards Podcast of the Year winner!
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✩ Happy 15th #BlueBeanieDay to one and all! Use #WebStandards to create accessible, inclusive content, expand and deepen the Web’s potential, avoid walled gardens, and fulfill our true destiny. And now a word from Sir ...
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☞ today is the 15th #BlueBeanieDay, we celebrate #WebStandards
Thanks to all who help develop standards, promote the open web, and to @zeldman for starting it in 2007!
Listen to our Founder and Web inventor Sir @timberners_lee
youtu.be/qdNQ3dyALAM
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The Chrome team writes about the new viewport units. And how lvh, svh, dvh interact with the viewport on mobile browsers — *including Chrome*.
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For the first time, I’m posting to front-end.social/@jensimmons and not to Twitter. (Asking about new CSS…)
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2,664 Americans died of Covid last week, while we were celebrating the end of the pandemic and traveling the country for the holidays. The coming weeks & months are going to be extremely painful.
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I cannot tell you how angry it makes me that the very people who should be protecting our children are promoting infection as a means of ‘building immunity’, whilst purporting to care about vulnerable children.
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Months ago and I laid out the strong case for nasal vaccines to achieve containment of the virus, breaking the chain of transmission at the individual and population level
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc
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I'm outraged by this pathetic and inexcusable inability for this country to go after nasal and better, durable, variant-proof vaccines
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An explainer for why the US is not pursuing nasal vaccines. TLDR: there is no good explanation
nytimes.com/2022/11/18/hea by @benjmueller
w/ @VirusesImmunity @florian_krammer
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Yes! Safari Technology Preview on macOS Monterey and macOS Big Sur now supports AVIF.
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I always thought that Safari can only add new image formats if they first get OS-level support. Turns out this is not true: they are adding AVIF to Safari on older MacOS versions too. Does this mean JPEG XL could also be added? @jensimmons webkit.org/blog/13584/rel
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This shouldn’t need to be said but if a disabled person points out an event you’re organizing is inaccessible or actively harmful to the disability community, telling them they “can choose not to attend” is exclusionary & ableist.
You can choose to make your event accessible.
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I didn’t go to the #time100next gala tonight for covid safety reasons, but dressed up anyway (my partner got me a nice dinner 💕)
But feeling bummed about it, and bummed that high risk people are excluded from participating in society, seemingly indefinitely…
#LongCovid
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