@andreubotella.com
Browser engineer at @igalia.com. I work on things ranging from CSS and layout in browsers, to Javascript language features, to interoperability between browsers and server-side runtimes as a co-chair of WinterTC. They/them
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.
Congratulations to @bkardell.com on joining the W3C TAG!
www.igalia.com/2026/02/10/I...
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...
WinterTC's Minimum Common Web API standard is now officially published as ECMA-429, Edition 1 . To many more editions!
Thanks @jasnell.me, @andreubotella.com, @akiro.se, @littledan.dev and everyone else that was involved in making this happen.
🎉
Hot off the blog press: Standards Queues
Definitely the hardest part right now, imho.
bkardell.com/blog/Queues....
Headline from Tom's hardware: "Non-binary RAM kits might be the secret to beating skyrocketing DDR5 prices"
Tech really wouldn't exist without queers
Igalia has been working on MathML interoperability across browser engines & my colleague wrote about what they've been working on so far:
conflor.es/blog/2025-11...
That's gonna be me on Saturday when I'm finally home after almost a whole month traveling
This Sunday, I'm giving a talk at JSConf! That's pretty exciting
jsconf.jp/2025/en/talk...
Hey, in about two hours (JST 11:15) I'll be leading a breakout session about WinterTC at W3C's TPAC: www.w3.org/events/meeti...
Hope to see you there!
Registration form for the Web Engines Hackfest 2026 is now open: forms.gle/7gSwfFebFW7s...
A couple of reminders, it'll happen in June 15 to 17 in A Coruña (Galicia, Spain) and you only need to register if you're planning to attend onsite.
More info about the event at webengineshackfest.org
Today I saw the phrase "Too small to fail" in the context of improving one's life, and I really like it.
Please please please if anybody wants to hire Igalia to work on this I'd be very happy to champion it internally, we even have folks that recently worked with JSC's module system
Also, structured serialization/deserialization had been implemented in Chromium for long, since it's what powers e.g. `worker.postMessage()`. Making `structuredClone()` work literally took me less than a day, and this was before I worked at Igalia, so I had to wait hours for a local Chromium build.