Hazel Duvall's Blog

Late March, I was laid off from my previous employer, Roam, due to a larger downsizing effort.

Video courtesy of my coworker.

Recently, I saw my coworker using VSCode, and they had this amazing feature where they could: Run ripgrep in the command pane Click on a filename it outputted To immediately open it in a new tab in the editor pane This, to me, was magical.

Being upfront: all these experiments were done by my coworker Jacob Fancher (GitHub), I’m just writing it up because I think it’s cool :) At Roam, we have an AI assistant called “On-It!”

TL;DR: Changing from display: flex; to display: grid; can break certain designs due to differences in how containing blocks work between them.

One of my past posts, “A Safari aspect-ratio CSS Bug”, has had very steadily growing traffic to it for a few months now.

Wow!!

Hello again!

Hi!

Either subtly (by using key), or not-so-subtly (by using code).

Figured I’d keep my photography-posting “streak” up, if you can call it that :P This time I have pictures from a trip I took to Rochester, on my own time, to visit a friend who’s at RIT there.

Wow I’ve been slacking on this one!!

You know the drill.

Recently, both I and a friend of mine (James) have dove back into making our blogs better.

For a while now, I’ve had a photography page on my blog.

Wow it’s been a hot minute, huh?

So at work, I had the opportunity to write a small tool that dumps the current state of the document into a single static HTML file, making no network requests.

I haven’t been active on this blog much, but I have been very active at work!

EDIT: As of 2024-10-15, when Chrome 130 was released, this bug is now fixed!

My blog now has an RSS Feed!.

In my previous post1, I covered how Chrome’s mask-image support doesn’t do any antialiasing for radial-gradient, and what that meant for making notification badge cutouts.

At work, I’ve seen my coworker set up this new cool tool called Rennovate which automatically scans your repository and opens PRs for updating dependencies.

At work, I’m in between a few big projects, spending my time polishing the UI so it shines.

I was fed up with Hakyll, so I’ve switched my site to use a new blogging framework, Astro.

Recently, some code I hacked on for work made its way onto Hacker News, where it got a decent amount of attention.

So for work, I’ve been hacking on the Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU) that we use to send media between clients.

As part of my job, I have been working pretty closely with WebRTC, a technology for doing real-time audio/video communications.

I seem to have fallen behind on updating this blog!

Wow!

A ton of extended relatives came out to see me graduate, which was super kind of them and honestly pretty fun to hang out with.

Wow.

Read Part 1 first!

As a full disclaimer, the vast majority of work for these labs was done by the professor for 15-316 Software Foundations of Security and Privacy, Matt Fredrikson.

Hello 2023 I have some big news!!

Yeah, you heard me right.

So.

I have some big news: just signed my first job offer!!!!!!!!!!

I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and I think it’s finally time to put these thoughts into a blog post.

So maybe you’ve read my other post about this from way back, or maybe not, and in either case I think it deserves an update.

This semester, I’m a TA for 15-316, Software Foundations of Security and Privacy taught by Matt Fredrikson, who’s just an absolutely phenomenal professor.

First this I want to note is this is not just my writing: this is a discussion my friend and I have a discussion about how modern copyright has been affected by various forms of piracy.

Whoops, forgot to actually push to the site, in case you couldn’t’ve guessed I have been busy with my internship :P.

How Did I Get Here As I’ve mentioned previously, I’m interning for Meta (formerly Facebook) this summer.

Wow, I haven’t seen one of those before!

It’s been very nice to relax after that semester, I needed it.

Wowza, that was quite the semester.

2021 was a year mainly full of one thing: COVID.

As I sit here, the day after a hectic final week of classes and 2 days before finals week proper, I start to reflect on just how much has happened this Fall 2021 semester.

This semester, my group and I at CMU did some simple research for 10-417, Intermediate Deep Learning.

Wow, what a month.