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I wanna be a mighty pirate! In the meantime, I'm director of engineering for Firefox Desktop at Mozilla. Formerly: Ministry of Justice UK, Expedia, and Yahoo.

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Adding To-Dos From Anywhere On Your Mac Through Quick Entry - Things Support Capture any thought into Things through Quick Entry, without ever leaving your current app. Add tags, start dates, or assign lists, all with just a few key strokes. Quick Entry with Autofill lets you ...

@things.app Hey! How does Quick Entry with Autofill work under the covers? Is that documented somewhere? The note on culturedcode.com/things/suppo... isn't quite enough for me to unpick how to add support to an app…

12.02.2026 15:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features.

We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this.

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18.12.2025 12:12 πŸ‘ 584 πŸ” 177 πŸ’¬ 79 πŸ“Œ 76

I did not know, when they were inventing "the cloud", that it was solely so that one day I could be the old man shaking my fist at it.

03.10.2025 16:35 πŸ‘ 206 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

What can I say: I enjoy the idea of a 2 year old terrorising you! Are you still in London? I’ve been meaning to suggest coffee, but life has been a lot.

18.06.2025 07:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Illustration of a woman with grey hair and glasses. A speech bubble says 'Can I still use the women's loo?'. Other text on the graphic says 'There's a lot of confusion about our rights at the moment. Read our Know Your Rights resource for accurate, up to date info. transactual.org.uk/know-your-rights

Illustration of a woman with grey hair and glasses. A speech bubble says 'Can I still use the women's loo?'. Other text on the graphic says 'There's a lot of confusion about our rights at the moment. Read our Know Your Rights resource for accurate, up to date info. transactual.org.uk/know-your-rights

It's here! Know your rights. A resource for trans people in the UK following the Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act. It has been reviewed by a team of lawyers to help you (and us) feel confident in knowing your rights.

You'll find it at transactual.org.uk/know-your-ri...

#Trans #Nonbinary

17.05.2025 09:00 πŸ‘ 228 πŸ” 143 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4
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Revealing the facts and figures of London's statues and monuments | Art UK Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

artuk.org/discover/sto... suggests it’s *named* women (4%, compared to 8% of animals). But still, pretty terrible.

16.05.2025 23:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œYippee ki-yay…”

We are excited to tell everyone that Westminster Council decided on May 1st that the Prince Charles Cinema would be included in the list of Assets of Community Value maintained by the Council under section 87 of the Localism Act 2011.

09.05.2025 14:06 πŸ‘ 1395 πŸ” 381 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 107
WebExtensions Support for Tab Groups – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog Exciting news: with yesterday’s release of Firefox 138, tab groups are now available to all users! Tab groups have been a long standing feature request for users, so it’s wonderful ...

You can now manage tab groups via Firefox WebExtensions 😍

blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025/...

01.05.2025 09:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Re Operation of Single-Sex Services after the Supreme Court Ruling Explainer: FGEN (feministgenderequality.network) and TransActual (transactual.org.uk) have thrown their support behind this letter and want to make it an official petition for a face to face meeting ...

You can also sign a joint letter from two trans rights organizations (TransActual and FGEN) that's going out to select MPs tomorrow.

Act fast, though. Deadline is 7pm.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

22.04.2025 13:17 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
URGENT ACTION: Write to your MP to protest the Supreme Court ruling and the EHRC's proposals to impose draconian bans on trans people from single-sex spaces. The trans community is facing a major crisis in the UK after the Supreme Court ruled last week that for the purposes of The Equality Act 2010 sex should be classified as biological (i.e. as recorded a...

Since we are back at work in the UK today - it's a GREAT time to email your MP about the Supreme Court ruling and the threats to trans people as a result. I used this helpful guide to write to my MP. You should too.
www.translegalproject.org/post/urgent-...

22.04.2025 13:01 πŸ‘ 184 πŸ” 90 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 6

Am I really the only person that dislikes iMessage stickers enough to turn them off and see that the switch doesn’t work? Or is this a bug that only affects me for some reason?

31.03.2025 22:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Frustratingly a job I was really excited about has fallen through at the last minute due to a lawyer screwing up.

So, I'm still looking for a new role. I'd really love to find something in the music industry, but open to anything!

27.02.2025 17:25 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tell the UK Government: Don’t Break Apple's iCloud Encryption The UK government's attack on Apple’s encrypted data endangers everyone β€” sign the petition to stop it.

The #UK government secretly ordered #Apple to give it access to encrypted personal data stored in iCloud, jeopardizing the privacy & security of millions.

Encryption is our last line of defence for digital #privacy. Help us demand a reversal of the decision by signing here
mzl.la/4gWz5zK

25.02.2025 21:12 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?"
Me: "That's the documentation deliverable."
Manager: "What's the status of that?"
Me: "We're halfway there"
Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"
Me: "You fired Tommy"
Manager: "So?"
Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"

23.02.2025 21:12 πŸ‘ 5346 πŸ” 1489 πŸ’¬ 91 πŸ“Œ 94
28.01.2025 13:35 πŸ‘ 143 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

I mean, 21 years in is as good a time to start as any. Who knows what it could do for your career!

25.12.2024 22:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

To me, my X-Mas!

25.12.2024 09:52 πŸ‘ 1618 πŸ” 389 πŸ’¬ 55 πŸ“Œ 21
Screen shot of "Accessibility Settings" with two main categories: "Alt text" and "Media." Under Alt text, there are two toggle options labelled "Require alt text before posting," which is switched on. β€œDisplay larger alt text badges" Under Media, there’s an option labelled "Disable autoplay for videos and GIFs," which is switched on.

Screen shot of "Accessibility Settings" with two main categories: "Alt text" and "Media." Under Alt text, there are two toggle options labelled "Require alt text before posting," which is switched on. β€œDisplay larger alt text badges" Under Media, there’s an option labelled "Disable autoplay for videos and GIFs," which is switched on.

New to @bsky.app? We’ve got some etiquette just for you!

Turn on the little feature that reminds you to post alt text with your images. Alt text allows blind and partially sighted people to understand what's in your images using screen readers. Without alt text, it just says "image".

14.11.2024 17:11 πŸ‘ 405 πŸ” 298 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 35

I mean, you can get people’s track added to *a* big playlist, just maybe not *the* big playlist they want it added to. I’m sure you could have a β€œtracks people asked me to add to big playlists” playlist in your personal library that would be very big!

16.11.2024 08:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0