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Lauro Moura @lauromoura.bsky.social · Jul 9

It was a pleasure meeting the Selenium community in this event. If you missed my talk on WebDriver BiDi and WebKit, you can watch it at www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ2p..., and the slides are available at www.slideshare.net/slideshow/ad...

Advancing WebDriver BiDi support in WebKit

YouTube video by Igalia

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Lauro Moura @lauromoura.bsky.social · Jun 11

A typical day in browser testing

(Source: www.reddit.com/r/Programmer...)

Meme with Patrick Star joking about tests failing when running together

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Igalia @igalia.com · May 27

The Web Engines Hackfest Starts Monday in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. We're excited to host our largest @webengineshackfest.org ever!

igalia.com/2025/webengi...

A photo of the venue, a large convention center on the coast as a title card, with the words "Web engines hackfest 2025 - June 2-4 | A Coruña, Galicia, Spain"

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Lauro Moura @lauromoura.bsky.social · May 19

Mas se dobrar o número de devs não conseguimos entregar em metade do tempo com segurança? /s

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Lauro Moura @lauromoura.bsky.social · Apr 28

Seria uma versão corporativa do brasileiro respondendo a um convite com "Opa, vamos marcar sim"?

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WebKitGTK @webkitgtk.org · Apr 14

A new stable series of #WebKitGTK was released recently, but work on future improvements continues. Nothing like a new installment of #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals to keep tabs on what we're up to!

WIP #21 is now available! → blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

Igalia WebKit Team | WebKit Igalia Periodical #21

blogs.igalia.com

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Igalia @igalia.com · Apr 11

We’ll be at #EuroLLVM 2025 in Berlin next week with talks from @asbradbury.org and Luke Lau!

Igalia @ EuroLLVM 2025

Lessons learned from leveling up RISC-V LLVM testing → Alex Bradbury • Tuesday, 5:55pm
Accidental Dataflow Analysis: Extending the RISC-V VL Optimizer → Luke Lau • Wednesday, 5:15pm

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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · Apr 12

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

David D. Levine @daviddlevine.com · Apr 12

LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."

LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything

: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'

www.theregister.com

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WebKitGTK @webkitgtk.org · Apr 9

A few weeks ago, we released WebKitGTK 2.48. Read here the highlights of this release!

webkitgtk.org/2025/04/08/w...

#webkit #gtk #webkitgtk

WebKitGTK+ 2.48 highlights - The WebKitGTK Project

webkitgtk.org

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Xima @ximaa.bsky.social · Apr 8

We've been using the wrong mental model to describe software development AI agents and this might be limiting the value engineers can extract from these tools. buff.ly/CLslpND #codeassistants #llm #softwareengineering #ai

Context Is King: Reframing Our Mental Model of Coding Assistants

We've been using the wrong mental model to describe software development AI agents and this might be limiting the value engineers can extract from these tools.

open.substack.com

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Lauro Moura @lauromoura.bsky.social · Apr 4

I used to until late 2023, I think. Then the older kid "took over" the Windows desktop I used to race with, and my "gaming hyperfocus" changed to War Thunder (tank simulator) :)

Last week I tried setting up the wheel again. But looks like my G290 is not turning on, so I have to solve that first :(

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Lauro Moura @lauromoura.bsky.social · Apr 3

I remember when I won my first, a Street stock, short oval.

My HR after taking the lead in the last few laps looked like I was finishing an actual running race.

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Lauro Moura @lauromoura.bsky.social · Mar 29

Maybe a better name would be the mouthful "ACDHD: Attention Control Deficit..."

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Lauro Moura @lauromoura.bsky.social · Mar 28

Talk by @automatedtester.co.uk about one of the worst nightmares of a tester: Flakiness #SeleniumConf

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Lauro Moura @lauromoura.bsky.social · Mar 27

The #SeleniumConf is underway! Follow live on YouTube at youtube.com/@seleniumconf

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Lauro Moura @lauromoura.bsky.social · Mar 27

Great to see the WebDriver BiDi ecosystem growing and being able to contribute to it #SeleniumConf

Slide with WebDriver BiDi Ecosystem participants during Selenium State of The Union Keynote

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Igalia @igalia.com · Mar 26

Tomorrow at 14:55 CET our very own Lauro Moura will present “Advancing WebDriver BiDi Support in WebKit” at @seleniumconf.bsky.social, about the history, challenges, and future in his quest to support WebDriver BiDi in WebKit. Feel free to come and say hi!
#webkit #webdriver #webdriverbidi #testing

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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · Mar 8

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

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Lauro Moura @lauromoura.bsky.social · Feb 4

376 files changed, 24517 insertions(+), 5658 deletions(-)

a man is carrying a large piece of paper in front of a group of people sitting in a lecture hall .

ALT: a man is carrying a large piece of paper in front of a group of people sitting in a lecture hall .

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Lauro Moura @lauromoura.bsky.social · Feb 4

Buzz Lightyear Debugging

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Igalia @igalia.com · Jan 30

🎙️ New podcast episode: RISC-Y Business

@bkardell.com and @meyerweb.com learn about RISCV and LLVM their compilers colleague @asbradbury.org

www.igalia.com/chats/riscy

A card saying "What are RISC-V and LLVM? RISC-Y Business featuring Alex Bradbury". Alex's photo is in a circle in the lower left corner and a background of "sound waves" emanate from it

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Lauro Moura @lauromoura.bsky.social · Jan 29

Nice take about potential problems becoming a hit right on the first book, project, etc. You risk the expectations rising too much before being able to develop a process youtube.com/shorts/SRdja...

Your Job As a Writer - Brandon Sanderson's Writing Lecture #1 (2025)

YouTube video by Brandon Sanderson

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Igalia @igalia.com · Jan 28

This weekend, several Igalians will be in Brussels for #FOSDEM 2025, which will take place on Feb 1st and 2nd. We will be giving talks covering different #OpenSource tech and topics and, as always, we are super excited to have hallway chats with everyone. 📜👇

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Lauro Moura @lauromoura.bsky.social · Jan 25

Those weeks when you're bitten by a 10-year-old stale bug... github.com/python/cpyth...

Argparse considers unknown optional arguments with spaces as a known positional argument · Issue #66623 · python/cpython

BPO 22433 Nosy @blueyed PRs #20924 Files argparse.py.patch: Bugfix for argparse 1.1argparse_bug_example.py: Bug demonstrationexample.pypatch_1.diff Note: these values reflect the state of the issue...

github.com

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Web Engines Hackfest @webengineshackfest.org · Jan 20

📅 Save the dates! The Web Engines Hackfest 2025 will take place June 2-4 in A Coruña, Galicia (Spain).
Check more details at: webengineshackfest.org

2025 Web Engines Hackfest

Web Platform community event for people working on the different engines (Chromium/Blink/V8, Safari/WebKit/JSC, Firefox/Gecko/SpiderMonkey, Servo, Ladybird), on the testing side (WPT, Test262), or on ...

webengineshackfest.org

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