The Web Witch's Blog

The year flies by when you're postpartum, sleep-deprived and your little bubba is suddenly on the move and making developmental leaps.

Chloe woke up at 2:30 AM and 4:30 AM again after a weekend of not waking up until 5 or 6 AM.

I'm feeling like superwoman this morning because Chloe was once again UP early and I was up at 2:00 AM and from 3:00-4:00 AM trying to soothe her back to sleep.

The plan for today was to work a full day and I did that.

Today was a bit shorter of a work day since I worked more than I was planning to yesterday.

I started work back up again yesterday, June 1, as a remote tech worker for an open source consultancy.

Today is my last day of maternity leave.

And suddenly it happens one day in March.

Note: I started this blog post at six weeks postpartum.

When I reflect on 2025 it's hard to not focus on one thing: that I was pregnant (and still am as of this moment.

tl;dr summary # I'm heading out on maternity leave a little earlier than planned.

Social media feels like it's in the throes of decay.

Perhaps you're not aware of data privacy laws and didn't think you needed to be, and maybe that's okay...until it's not.

“Tabs were great, but we haven’t seen a lot of browser innovation since then.”

Over the last two months I've felt a noticeable decline in my mental health.

I've been trying to make an effort to more intentionally pick something to watch when the weekend rolls around.

April was precisely what I was expecting it to be: exhausting.

"You look tired."

We arrived back from Seattle on a Tuesday, and I was thankful to be UK side after the most horrific airport experience at SeaTac the previous day, in which nothing went to plan and America's incompetence really shined bright.

I really haven't done a review of my months since November.

Early yesterday morning, on the second day of Blink On, I received the news that I had officially moved from Staff level to Pre-Partner at Igalia.

My manicurist is showing me the Easter nail art she's been practicing.

March 11th marked my one year anniversary at Igalia.

In a recent experience while building a website, I tried to use ChatGPT to help me out with JavaScript.

If your response to a lineup dominated by men is, "There are almost no women in this field," I'm afraid that reveals a lack of effort to curate an event with diverse, interesting perspectives.

I don't know what I wanted out of 2024, and I think that's okay.

My goal for 2024 was to read 30 books.

As I have spent the last 6 months starting to explore the rather precarious position we've placed web ecosystem in, with regard to how browsers are maintained and funded, I thought I'd dive into another angle: The ways that web platform features get prior…

I was re-designing the footer for my blog when I added a list of social icon links.

I am writing this from the desert where we've had a lovely few days of food and football (both American and English).

Six years ago the thought of standing on a stage to give a talk made me physically ill.

October was once again a blur in which I tried to soak up all the autumn vibes in between trips.

Form controls are notoriously difficult to style, something the web community has been talking about for years.

September was incredibly busy across work and personal life.

I spoke at State of the Browser a few weeks ago in London, and I want to reflect on what an absolutely lovely community of people organize and attend that event.

I'm not so sure I like calling these "Life checks"...perhaps going forward I will call them something else.

Everything is the same and yet everything is different.

The speed at which the pace of life changes around here is a little bit like whiplash.

I've just realized I never posted here about my book, Design for Developers, going to print and being published last August (2023).

Microsoft announced it is deprecating support for the CSS properties -ms-high-contrast and -ms-high-contrast-adjust in favor of the forced colors standard.

When I was interviewing for a role with Microsoft Edge in early 2016, I got to my final interview in the loop and I can still remember sitting across from my soon-to-be manager when he asked about the future of the web.

I make a habit of browsing web platform features to see what's new and interesting and moving along in the browser space.

After my first two weeks at Igalia, while everything is new, it also feels as if I've come back home after 2 years away from the web platform space.

My desk setup in the UK is slowly coming together & Jhey picked out a microphone for me.

One of the more painful experiences I've encountered on the web is filling out a form input that is fixed width.

We've started the new year and the layoff news just keeps hitting.

scrollbar-color # scrollbar-width #

Jhey and I have been going back and forth on naming our CSS project and I am once again reminded how terribly hard it is to name things.

My goal for 2023 was to read 24 books.