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

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. 🙏

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 through—January 2026

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I'm back from A Coruña, 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 ✅ #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 💤

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