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Jake Archibald
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Developer of sorts at @firefox.com. No thought goes unpublished. He/him.
@vcorenmitchell.bsky.social fan of the show, but there's a frequent graphical glitch on the Connecting Wall that I can't unsee…
January 2, 2026 at 10:58 AM
Yay black cats! Here's mine on the way back from the cattery.
January 1, 2026 at 7:16 PM
I asked @remysharp.com to take one fuckin picture of me and @brucel.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I've used github.com/Nicxe/f1_sen... to sync my living room lights to F1 flags
November 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The secret is an ungodly amount of lights
November 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Flashback to 2022 when I bought tree lights with white cabling and it looked like Spiderman spaffed all over it.
November 29, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Although, to be fair:
November 27, 2025 at 8:24 AM
jfc google what the fuck????
November 27, 2025 at 8:16 AM
He got out of bed, made it 1 metre, had a lie down, got up, went back to bed.
November 26, 2025 at 10:59 AM
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
A lot of you asked for burned-in subtitles. I agree, it was already on my todo list, and well, I had a long flight, so it was something to do.

I'll improve the segmenting for the next real video, but so far so good.
November 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Me:
November 19, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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