Maciej Stachowiak

@othermaciej.bsky.social

Responsible for WebKit and networking frameworks at Apple. Interested in cats, games, the web, guitar, software, privacy, immersive experiences, science fiction, 日本語. 🇵🇱/🇺🇸. Pro-🇺🇦.

My weird combo of takes: - The original Last of Us was 100% perfect. - The story of Last of Us II frustrating and unsatisfying. Many of the intended emotional beats didn't land. Finished it but was bad. - The Last of Us show is doing a much better job of delivering on those emotional beats from II.

I’m super excited about `text-wrap: pretty`. It does a lot more to improve typography than you might expect — at least in Safari Technology Preview 216. It improves all lines of text, not just the last 4. It enhances hyphenation & rag, not just avoiding short last lines. webkit.org/blog/16547/b...

Better typography with text-wrap pretty

Support for text-wrap: pretty just shipped in Safari Technology Preview, bringing an unprecedented level of polish to typography on the web.

webkit.org

There it is! Finally, a real solution for how to style all of the HTML form controls using your own custom CSS to change anything — building on an interoperable UA set of defaults. First, styling the in-page part of controls + the popover for <select>. (Later we’ll do popovers for more things.)

Screenshot of CSS Form Control Styling Level 1 First Public Working Draft web standard from the W3C's CSS Working Group

One of the oldest arguments against giving any rights or process to the people we accuse is — one constantly “rediscovered” by the shallow and the dim — is “well they didn’t give their victims any rights or process.” That’s fatuous. /1

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Hilariously craven. Democrats invoked a law allowing Congress to override Trump’s “national emergency” declaration, which allows him to impose unilateral tariffs. Requires a vote within 15 days. To avoid a vote, the GOP declared that the entire rest of this year will just be one very long day.

Republicans Quietly Cede Power to Cancel Trump’s Tariffs, Avoiding a Tough Vote

House G.O.P. leaders tucked the provision into a procedural measure needed to pass a government spending bill.

nytimes.com