Duty Of Care
A colleague asked me what I thought of this Medium article by Owen Bennett on the application of the UK’s Duty of Care laws to software. I’d had… quite a bit of coffee at that point, and this (lightly...
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80×25
Every now and then, my brain clamps on to obscure trivia like this. It takes so much time. “Because the paper beds of banknote presses in 1860 were 14.5 inches by 16.5 inches, a movie industry cartel...
View ArticleThe State Of Mozilla, 2019
As I’ve done in previous years, here’s The State Of Mozilla, as observed by me and presented by me to our local Linux user group. Presentation:[ https://www.youtube.com/embed/RkvDnIGbv4w ] And Q&A:...
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Historical Reasons
I’ve known for a while how to override bash builtins, but it was something I’d long filed under “ok but why” in my mental repository of software esoterica. Until I saw this comment I hadn’t considered...
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Over The Line
[ This first appeared over on the Mozilla community discourse forums. ] You can scroll down to the punchline if you like, but I want to start by thanking the Mozilla community, contributors, industry...
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Dexterity In Depth
I’m exactly one microphone and one ridiculous haircut away from turning into Management Shingy when I get rolling on stuff like this, because it’s just so clear to me how much this stuff matters and...
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Synchronous Messaging: We’re Live.
After a nine month leadup, chat.mozilla.org, our Matrix-based replacement for IRC, has been up running for about a month now. While we’ve made a number of internal and community-facing announcements...
View ArticleBrace For Impact
I don’t spend a lot of time in here patting myself on the back, but today you can indulge me. In the last few weeks it was a ghost town, and that felt like a victory. From a few days after we’d...
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Notice
As far as I can tell, 100% of the google results for “burnout” or “recognizing burnout” boil down to victim-blaming; they’re all about you, and your symptoms, and how to recognize when you’re burning...
View ArticleNavigational Instruments
A decade ago I got to sit in on a talk by one of the designers of Microsoft Office who’d worked on the transition to the new Ribbon user interface. There was a lot to learn there, but the most...
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