WebKit developer, cyclist, steam engine builder @smfr@mastodon.social

Joined May 2008
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NWS: Oh my gosh! This is big! We have to alert people! Apple: What should we tell them? NWS: Tell them “hydrologic outlook”!
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9 Dec 2022
Are there any open source software licenses that explicitly state that code cannot be used as AI training data?
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17 Nov 2022
I really hope we refer to this scandalous takeover of Twitter in future as Elongate
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Today we’re back with more #AskApple! Make sure you’re registered for new topics like Spatial audio and Safari Web Views and WebKit, both answering questions today. And don’t miss old favorites like Ask a Designer. Submit your questions to all Q&As now! 🙌🏻 developer.apple.com/events/a…

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11 Nov 2022
Did anyone propose adding the blue check mark to Unicode yet?
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7 Nov 2022
C'mon everybody
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24 Oct 2022
Hey @StravaSupport iOS photo uploads are all out of order again
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6 Oct 2022
It's a bit of understatement to say @WebKit project cares about performance or efficiency of the software. We're quite obsessed with it, and we throw a lot of engineering resources at it, not to regress, and to improve upon.
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10 Sep 2022
Interesting grammatical choice there in the King's speech: "Queen Elizabeth's was a life well lived".
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As individual web developers, we have a magnified impact on the world's energy use through the vast number of computers that will run our code. The choices we make matter.
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📢📢📢🔡🔠The WebKit team at Apple is hiring a text engineer! Please don't hesitate to apply if you're interested in typography, fonts, shaping, unicode, internationalization, emoji, etc! Remote workers welcome to apply! jobs.apple.com/en-us/details…

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28 May 2022
If I had an insulation business on the peninsula, I would call it Peninsulation.
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We're hiring two people to join the JSC team at Apple. Come work with me and this amazing team. We're working on tons of exciting problems. We are always making JavaScript and WebAssembly faster, improving the security of the VM and browser, and adding new language features.
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25 Mar 2022
Same energy
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Do you have C/C skills and experience with or interest in working on audio/video software? Help improve WebKit’s elegant, integrated and power-efficient media stack, including further efficiency improvements and new Web platform features. jobs.apple.com/en-us/details…
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3 Mar 2022
Today Apple, Bocoup, Google, Igalia, Microsoft, & Mozilla are announcing Interop 2022, a collaboration to improve interoperability of specific web technologies. Progress is scored from the automated testing of 15 focus areas, plus 3 investigation projects. webkit.org/blog/12288/workin…
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Work update: Since last month, I’m the manager of WebKit Security & Privacy at Apple. Huge responsibility in this day and age, but it's the kind of challenge I like. Here’s a thread about this Silicon Valley team and jobs you can apply to today!
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BTW, this position for Apple's WebKit 3D graphics (WebGL/GPU/XR/🎨/etc) engineer is open to remote employment 🏠🏢. And to repeat: we would love to see diversity of applicants, and you don't necessarily need a lot of experience. jobs.apple.com/en-au/details…

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