Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
Joined March 2008
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Color vector fonts on @googlefonts make it easy to embed a full emoji font into your page and show your emoji consistently without missing glyphs and without replacing them with images. Make your headlines pop out with Nabla and custom palettes.
We just added a whole bunch of new fonts and they’re all #colorfonts! This is just the beginning for the COLRv1 file format, which supports gradients, customized color palettes, and more. Check out all 9 and find out why 6 of them are for Arabic scripts. bit.ly/3xkfPYI
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Why is someone with 168 violations not permantly banned from driving? Why have driver licensing or vehicle registration at all?
Tragic NYC case: Paulina Nrecaj, 59, was fatally impaled on a fence when “an SUV jumped the curb” (written as if no one was driving the car.) Protected bike lanes were blamed for “confusing” the driver of the car, WHICH HAS 168 VIOLATIONS.
nypost.com/2022/09/10/nyc-wo… @StreetsblogNYC
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I'll be attending @w3c TPAC next week virtually rather than going to Vancouver.
I'm expecting I'll continue attending things virtually for a while, although I'm still hoping the bivalent COVID vaccine boosters will change the situation substantially. 4/4
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I realized this after discussions about different people's views of the COVID rules for meetings that I've been involved in. Thinking about the big difference between those two situations has made me much more pessimistic about in-person standards meetings & conferences. 3/4
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I'd trust many colleagues not to come to the office they go to every day if they have COVID symptoms or a positive test... but I've realized that I wouldn't trust many of the same people to do the same at a meeting they've flown across the continent/world to attend. 2/4
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As in-person web standards meetings have been starting again, one thing I've been thinking about is the level of trust around following COVID rules that we're placing in our colleagues. 1/4
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"Climate Best by Government Test", eh?
Six Bay Area & Central Coast climate sites set their all-time record maximum temperature this afternoon. Today's heat was anticipated to be the peak of the event with some slight cooling expected on Wednesday. However, the interior will remain hot through late week. #CAheat
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I'd prefer voting systems that really supported multiparty democracy, including things like mixed-member-proportional legislatures.
But I probably lean against accepting the unpredictability of cross-party IRV (or, worse, California's way) over the current 2-party system. 6/6
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In this particular case, if a relatively small number of voters whose real preference was Palin-Begich-Peltola had instead strategically voted a Begich-Palin-Peltola ballot instead of a Palin-Begich-Peltola ballot, Begich probably would have won instead of Peltola. 5/6
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Instant Runoff Voting tends to produce results that are very dependent on how the candidates are distributed across the political spectrum, and also most strongly emphasizes the top end of voters' rank lists. (So does FPTP.) It's also pretty susceptible to strategic voting. 4/6
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As far as I could tell from looking at the Alaska elections website a few days ago, I don't think Alaska has made the full ranking data of the ballots available, so I can't verify this. 3/6
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While folks on the left may be happy about this particular result, I think it's worth being clear that Begich was very likely the Condorcet winner in this election. That is, Begich probably would have won both Begich-Palin and Begich-Peltola runoffs. 2/6
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Ranked Choice voting may have exciting possibilities... but I'm not so excited about the nearly-standard use of Instant Runoff Voting to count Ranked Choice ballots. Ranked Choice ballots can be counted in many ways. 1/6
1/ I continue to be really excited about the possibilities of Ranked Choice Voting, especially after the Alaska election.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I knew America had disproportionately high traffic fatalities, but I don't think I realized just how truly bad we are.
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This reminds me of engineering-wide emails at Mozilla (many iterations of management ago):
Don't break builds/tests so often
or a few months later:
Don't use so much machine time on try runs
Both messages needed to be targeted. (And they weren't even hard conversations!)
This seems like a common management failing: blasting out feedback intended for specific employees to everyone because you don’t have the, um, guts to have hard one-on-one conversations. joshbarro.com/p/digital-reve…
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The engineers working on shipping it in Chrome showed that it was a lot harder than I thought it would be... but it was, in fact, possible.
(See github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/… for just one example. It turned out that the way CSS Transitions are started wasn't compatible with CQ.)
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Getting a lot of mentions today about Container Queries shipping in Chrome. It feels a little odd given that it's something I haven't been very involved in for the last 2 years... though I did help start it down its path by claiming an approach was possible to implement.
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