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Jake Archibald
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Developer of sorts at @firefox.com. No thought goes unpublished. He/him.
Great, so www.britishairways.com

🎉 Displays in geo language rather than user language
🎉 The language picker is at the bottom of a long page
🎉 The language picker is in the current language, so in order to select "United Kingdom", I need to know what that is in German
November 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Last week I posted about a secret config in Firefox that made view transitions easier to debug.

Folks said we should make it less secret.

So we did.
October 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM
@mikehall314.bsky.social hmm kinda looks like the slide is introducing the panel
October 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
It would have to behave like the equivalent of this, and it wouldn't know the keys up front so it'd be a proxy.
October 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Aside from "it's the new W3C logo, with the text 'world wide web consortium' in a circle around the outside", what alt text would you use to describe this?
October 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
He helped me record it
October 21, 2025 at 6:38 AM
We're currently working on devtools for view transitions in Firefox, but in the meantime, here's a little-known option that helps…
October 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I'm actually quite impressed by Google's AI search, but hah it does this _a lot_.
October 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
What's next? Playing badminton with Skelator?
September 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
New metal album just dropped
September 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
?????
September 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Hey folks! Are you interested in fetch upload streams? If so, what do you want to use them for?
September 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
yeah no I'm alright thanks
August 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
commitStyles() has existed for years, but now in Firefox, it behaves like I always thought it should. Firefox is the first to make this change, but hopefully others will follow soon. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...
August 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
The task scheduling API helps you take a large synchronous task, and chunk it up into smaller pieces, yielding to the event loop and rendering along the way. It’s now in Chrome & Firefox, but there’s a polyfill for Safari users. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...
August 22, 2025 at 9:55 AM
URLPattern lets you parse URLs using familiar route syntax. It’s now in Chrome & Firefox, but it’s likely to land in the next version of Safari. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...
August 22, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Kimi & Senna shelter kitties checking in
August 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Starting my new role on Monday. Could be anywhere.
July 31, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Excellent time looking after my sister's cats
July 22, 2025 at 11:15 AM
It knows the difference between in & out, so it doesn't get inverted. In Home Assistant I've set up buttons that can be used to manually toggle in/out state.
July 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Well, I had fun.
July 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
July 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Thanks YouTube Music, thanks.
July 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I'm missing something. If I set the transform origin to the cat's face, and applied a scale, wouldn't I get this animation rather than one that brings the cat's head into the centre?
June 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
My family were not surprised by this.
May 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM