Look, the Web Engines Hackfest is now a W3C-endorsed conference: www.w3.org/events/confe...
Some working groups might arrange meetings at the hackfest. Thanks to W3C for your support and collaboration.
IRC screenshot (TabAtkins is scribing the meeting in IRC): TabAtkins: emilio: maybe scroll-snap-align-rect? TabAtkins: astearns: -basis? TabAtkins: how about scroll-snap-align-decide-in-two-weeks *kbabbit pulls up Keith Cirkel's game to look for ideas*
Meanwhile, today in the CSS Working Group:
Arm logo
We're glad to announce that Arm is sponsoring one more year the Web Engines Hackfest 2026, this time as sliver and coffee & snacks sponsors! 🎉
Big thanks for the continuous support. 🙏
WebXR on WPE WebKit is here! Igalia’s Sergio Villar breaks down the architecture, OpenXR backend, hand input, AR modes, and the road ahead.
blogs.igalia.com/svillar/post...
The Temporal proposal, co-championed by Igalia, advances to Stage 4 at TC39 — replacing JavaScript's Date API after nine years of work. Congratulations to everyone involved! Here's to better date-time handling on the web and beyond.
www.igalia.com/2026/03/13/T...
A title card with a photo of a clock in the lower right corner and sound waves illustrated as coming from it, the words repeat what is in the skeet
@bkardell.com and @meyerweb.com chat with Igalia's @ptomato.name, @nicr.dev and Bloomberg's @jason-williams.co.uk about the JavaScript Temporal API
www.igalia.com/chats/tempor...
My headcanon is that Tom Poral is the human representation of Date.
We are looking for an open source product marketing manager to help us with WPE, Servo, Moonforge, Wolvic and other similar projects at @igalia.com
More information: www.igalia.com/jobs/product...
ECMAScript EXTRA-SPECIAL excitement 😉
🚨🚨🚨 IT'S ABOUT TIME! 🚨🚨🚨
Congrats to @ptomato.name on advancing Temporal to Stage 4 at @tc39.es today 🎉
Temporal is the replacement for the JavaScript Date API 👍
Exciting things happening in TC39 right now
A little over 3 months to go until Web Engines Hackfest 2026, happening June 15–17 in A Coruña!
If you plan to attend onsite, please register here: forms.gle/7gSwfFebFW7s...
We already have more than 50 people registered: webengineshackfest.org#attendees
Lately I've been feeling dead inside with absolutely anything AI-related.
Even with the beef between the US government and Anthropic, which I'm sure is objectively funny.
I don't like the future we're headed to at all...
Which CC license?
If you're a student or early in your software/CS career, I encourage you to apply to the Igalia Coding Experience program. The deadline to apply is April 3.
People from underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply!
www.igalia.com/coding-exper...
My company @igalia.com is hiring an Open Source Product Marketing Manager. www.igalia.com/jobs/product...
Igalia is a worker-owned cooperative based in A Coruña, Spain. All positions are 100% remote. Igalia can potentially sponsor visas to emigrate to Spain.
Signal message from me: once again I'm yelling out load to a veritasium video, "no, it's fucking capitalism! enough capital can break down all regulations and make them useless!"
Screenshot of a Signal conversation. Some names are redacted with colors. Pichu: Alpine Linux or Not Alpine Linux, the only two genders. Me: where does gentoo fit in that Pichu (in response to my "where does gentoo fit in that"): Yes. Green (in response to Pichu's "Alpine Linux or Not Alpine Linux, the only two genders."): glibc or musl Green (in response to my "where does gentoo fit in that"): clearly not alpine Pichu (in response to Green's "clearly not alpine"): Void is Non-Binary. Me: what if you install gentoo in the alps? Pichu: It has bot- wait no it doesn't. Green (in response to Pichu's "Void is Non-Binary."): wdym it's clearly not alpine Pichu: Which was that ONE (1) Distro that gave you the option between musl and glibc? Me: distros are a social construct anyway Pichu: Void let's you pick your init system definitely not the libc though. Magenta (in response to my "distros are a social construct anyway"): wait this is kinda a good metaphor....
My trans friend group:
I've had bad ADHD days for this week so far, so I thought I might try to hack my brain into fucking working by playing Technology Connections-like youtube videos in the background, just muffled. Maybe playing louder music on top.
Except I'm now making a muffler browser extension instead of working.
The EC is putting together an initiative to develop their strategy for open digital ecosystems. Given its potential to push forward the development and funding of open-source software in Europe and beyond, Igalia submitted a response with some suggestions. Read more: www.igalia.com/2026/02/03/I...
Wrote a blog post about the work I've been doing at @igalia.com to implement the Temporal proposal in JavaScriptCore:
blogs.igalia.com/compilers/20...
Banner of my talk at FOSDEM that reads: Igalia @ FOSDEM'26. The Servo project and its impact on the web platform ecosystem. Manuel Rego. Saturday, Jan. 31, 2:00pm
On my way to @fosdem.org where tomorrow I’ll be talking about @servo.org in the "Browser and web platform" devroom. See you there!
fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
Photo taken in my office with my webcam, of me wearing a maroon dress, with nails painted purple, and a purple bracelet. I have hair by the shoulders, and also a bit of a short beard.
Today in the CSS face-to-face meeting we're discussing line-clamp, which is something I've been working on fixing for years.
The meeting is in Apple's offices in Cupertino, California, so I'm not attending in person because fuck traveling to the US.
This is gonna be my camera feed though:
📣 Servo at FOSDEM 2026
This weekend at FOSDEM 2026, @rego.bsky.social Chair of the Servo TSC, will present:
“The Servo project and its impact on the web platform ecosystem.”
📅 Saturday, Jan 31
🕑️ 14:00–14:30 CET
📍 Browser and Web Platform Devroom
🎥 Live stream
fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
Let me just say fuck ICE, and border patrol in general.
Maybe Europe should express solidarity with the protestors in the US, like we do for protests in other violent oppressive regimes.
Really wishing that somebody would hire my company (@igalia.com) to standardize/implement support for import maps in web workers.
I already have a draft spec PR ready and there is interest from the community, which company wants to be the hero funding pushing it forward? :)
3 years in a row I posted about Temporal on Jan 1st.
Now the year has come* I of course forgot.
* Not stage 4 yet, but all signs point to this year and Temporal has shipped in Firefox and coming in Chrome 144.
Do I write the blog post I want to write, or do I get way too sidetracked trying to add footnotes/sidenotes to my blog?
I'm not much of a Christmas person, which is why when I thought "maybe I should get a good docking station for my new laptop", I wasn't expecting every good option to be sold out...
