Dutch expat in London.
Principal Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation, QUnit project lead @qunit, jQuery Infra Team @jquery, W3C Web Perf WG.
Avatar: I look up, raindrops bounce from the tip of my leather hat. Photo by Niek Hidding.
Creative interests: linguistics, music, photography. Work interests: performance, web standards, design, privacy, security.
#webperf #PHP #mediawiki #wikipedia #qunit #nederlands #fedi22 #foss #OpenSource #tech #technology #wikimedia #jquery
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Got the ⏻ symbol into #Unicode.
Open Standards / Source / Data geek.
Known as @Edent on most social platforms.
Bit obsessed with #SolarPower but not quite a #SolarPunk.
Please read the link before replying. Yes, that means you!
Queer political geek; proud social justice warrior, proud trans ally. Queering Wikipedia as chair of @wmlgbt; trustee Fast Track Cymru. ex-ORG & mySociety. Dysgwr. My opinions, not my employer’s. he/him
English, français, Cymraeg. (Español, Deutsch; sometimes learning: العربية, Gàidhlig, ייִדיש)
My toots without boosts: https://justmytoots.com/@owenblacker@dataare.cool
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Anti fascist. If you’re not, what are you?
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Profile image is me as an almost 40 years younger man. I have dyed black crimped hair in a broad mohawk.
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my views, he/him, :rainblob:
@hugh_alt for spicy takes
@crablab.uk for my Bsky presence bridged
Matrix: @crablab:matrix.org
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here to make friends :ablobcat_happy_paws:
ip banned from my council‘s bin collection website
Justin Bieber follows me on Twitter and i have no idea why
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Likes are bookmarks,
Retweets mean I think it's worth reading, Not that I agree with it.
Taking a break from a career in software.
Wondering if I can eke out a living making stuff up.
Labhair liom as Gaeilge (neo Gàidhlig, tha mi airson ionnsachadh) agus ceartaigh mé mas é do thoil é!
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