A wave of manic energy in December had me put together a long deck called "HarfBuzz at 20! " , celebrating 20 years of HarfBuzz. ๐ŸŽ‚

I designed the deck to be presented at the #WebEnginesHackfest later this year. Then reality hit that I cannot present this deck in any sane amount of time.

Inspired by all the great presentations coming out of #FOSDEM today, I decided that instead of tossing the deck out, I just put it out here to be read by the curious. I will present a highly condensed version at the hackfest in June.

Let me know what you think. ๐Ÿ™

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1o9Exz1c-Lr-dJjA8dcBn_Vl_Y37cupmFzmclMjBE_Bc/view

HarfBuzz at 20!

HarfBuzz at 20! all you ever wanted to know about HarfBuzz and then some behdad a slide deck to skim throughโ€”January 2026

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I'm back from A Coruรฑa, where I attended Igalia's #WebEnginesHackfest for the first time. It was an awesome opportunity to connect with W3C staff, WG and TC participants, browser vendors, and fellow software developers. I was particularly interested in the discussions around #WebAI, Signals, XR, and privacy. I was also able to land some pull requests to browser engines and web specs, making it an actual hackfest.
Europe trip done โœ… #webengineshackfest was interesting Gained perspective on the world of browser engines and the ecosystem around them. Learned some new stuff, met a bunch of interesting folk. Back to Thailand tomorrow Hostel for the night ๐Ÿ’ค

Our final talk of the day is from Nikolas Zimmermann, giving us an update on the Status of the Layer-Based SVG Engine in WebKit!

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Blitz: an HTML/CSS renderer (like webview without JavaScript) #webengineshackfest

Next up, Nico Burns is talking about Blitz: a truly modular, hackable web renderer!

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Stephanie Stimac starting her talk at the Web Engines Hakcfest 2024 #webengineshackfest
We're coming back with @seaotta talking about funding the web ecosystem, follow it live at https://www.youtube.com/live/r4tPJDj7nm0?si=uVioz7aZTgD3jRUY #webengineshackfest
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@seaotta getting ready to give us a talk at #webengineshackfest .. you can follow on

https://www.youtube.com/live/r4tPJDj7nm0?si=uVioz7aZTgD3jRUY

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We have one more session before lunch!

Next up is "Nova JavaScript Engine - Exploring a Data-Oriented Engine Design" presented by Aapo Alasuutari #webengineshackfest