Jen SimmonsBeing a woman in the tech industry has unfortunately given me an incredible amount of experience dealing with hate, harassment, & violent verbal attacks. It’s given me an incredibly thick skin. However recent attacks are pushing me over some kind of edge. It’s horrible to work hard on something for years, with an amazing team, only to have the weirdest, totally-wrong theories floated around as fact, endorsed by colleagues across the web industry. This level of hatred and cynicism is shocking.
James Atkinson@jensimmons terribly sorry and sad this is happening to you and others. Absolutely no excuse for it no matter how they pretend to justify their spite
Alexis Gallagher@jensimmons Is this the usual nonsense of “sure Safari did something good but Apple is still evil because I’ve read their mind and I know they did the good thing against their will”? Please don’t let it get you down.
Ivan Reese@jensimmons Terribly sorry to hear that! I've followed your work for what feels like forever, and it's always helped me as I've grown from beginner to expert. Thank you for sticking it out as long as you have, and I hope you persevere — but no matter what, do what you need to to take care of yourself.
William Palin@jensimmons fwiw we’re very excited about your recent work. Thanks.
El Brown@jensimmons Sorry you have to deal with that shit.
Doug Bowman@jensimmons I’m so sorry to hear this Jen. I greatly admire the work you and your team do, and am so thankful for all *you* specifically contribute. You’re working to make the web and our lives better, and you deserve all our gratitude.
@stop Oh that means so much to hear from you, Doug! You were one of my early heroes in the web industry. I learned so much from your writing and your work. And I aspired to be like you and so many others who led the charge in the early days of CSS.
@jensimmons The <tables> have turned! 😀 It’s me who learns so much from you now.
Sundeep Malladi@jensimmons FWIW Jen, I’ve been following you for a long time and I’ve always appreciated the amount of value you’ve introduced to the web ecosystem. We’re all lucky you’re here helping move the web forward.
erin sparling@jensimmons your work with my teams at NYT so many years ago didn’t just bring CSS Grid to the products there, but to my students as well. True transformation, coupled with the tooling to make it easy to understand!
@everyplace Oh I’m so glad that day at NYTimes was helpful! And the Grid Inspector, too!
Being able to present at the NYTimes and at the Washington Post stand out as a highlight in my career. What an honor.
And thanks! CSS Grid *is* amazing. Especially with Subgrid! I’m still surprised when people reach for Flexbox — when Grid would be a perfect solution.
Minds on Design Lab (MOD-Lab)@jensimmons Your work is very appreciated by us. You share here about CSS grid and notably appreciate your advocacy, knowledge sharing, and improvements to our tools around that. We have some team members who really have been enjoying all that CSS Grid offers. Allowing us to say yes, easier, to our design team to address the layouts and design visions they come up with.
Ваня@jensimmons I'm sorry for being an asshole in replies for one of your posts. I do like what you do and what way Safari is moving.
But I'm against apple's motto "we know what's better for users". In many aspects I see that Apple doing things their way and forming people's world around that things calling it "better then others". And you're the person who talks on apple's behalf.
But you're a person, not a company. Sorry again.
Scott Yoshinaga@jensimmons so sorry this happens to you! I learned so much from all of your videos. Thankful for all that you do!
Adrian Nier@jensimmons Thanks for prevailing and continually choosing to bring us a great product despite all this. That’s where you really need an amazing team to lean on.
There is absolutely no excuse for hatred and cynicism in the industry. Not with the required level of critical thinking that comes with the job.
Does your experience match mine? The way I see it, these people think of others as so misguided that they justify any means to fix a perceived wrongness in the world.
D.B. Galeli 🔱 
@jensimmons I’m really sorry that you have to deal with that nonsense
You’d think peers would have some empathy and the loudest amongst them would be responsible enough to know better.
Sadly it seems that they’d rather chase clout, consequences for peers be damned
Keep up the good work, I appreciate your work and have great respect for you and I know for a fact that many others do as well!
ozamidas@jensimmons i'd be quite bad if the harassment came from this platform. Since i don't really have the context, i will assume that is not.
But if it is, i'd be quite disappointed.
Dan Frakes@jensimmons I really appreciate all you do and I’m so sorry to hear this.
Kenneth@jensimmons I appreciate you being out here 🙏
Kevin Miller@jensimmons I’m sorry. I truly value and enjoy the content you link and thoughts you post.
Tim Erickson, @stpaultimI don't know what your are dealing with this time, but I'm sorry to hear about it.
Please, keep up the good work you are doing to make the internet better.
Alex R@jensimmons Safari is such an incredible browser, surely in no small part because of the hard work and advocacy of you and the team. I feel like WebKit has a really refreshing focus on rapid iteration on the core platform features (especially layout!) that make everyday web developers’ lives easier and let us build cool things faster. Shipping things in a big, complex project and org is hard, so thank you for everything that you and the team do. I see and appreciate it!
Oliver Hunt@jensimmons yeah there are a whole lot of people who have bought into a whole lot of BS continuously promoted by some fairly awful people. Yet the copious evidence of said "experts" being both wrong and consistently assholes has not stopped them being considered "experts"
Nico Rohrbach@jensimmons Dear Jen, I’m sure for the amount of bad people, there is the same amount of good ones following you … unfortunately, we are not so “outspoken”. I’m sorry for that. Please keep up your amazing work!
Michael Ward@jensimmons it’s truly shocking to me how some think & behave. I don’t understand where it comes from. I’m sorry you’re having to suffer this dreadful experience. 😥
David Nelson@jensimmons I’m sorry, nobody deserves to be treated like that. Just know for every troll there are many more who love and appreciate what you do.
Scott Willsey@jensimmons
@dmnelson For sure. Please do whatever it takes to be mentally healthy. Thank you for your work and for pushing to make tech companies and tech followers better.
@dmnelson For sure. Please do whatever it takes to be mentally healthy. Thank you for your work and for pushing to make tech companies and tech followers better.
Kelly Guimont@jensimmons I'm sorry to hear! It seems worse lately to me too, though I haven't had colleagues backing up the idiots in my case. I hope you have some wonderful countermeasures.
Caleb@jensimmons That is a particular level of awfulness. I’m sorry you’re dealing with that.
I’m super happy and impressed with the strides you and the Safari team are making.
Jeff C. 🇺🇦🇬🇱@jensimmons For what it’s worth, I love the work you and your team are doing and am heartened to see so much important progress lately.
I’m sorry that you’re having to deal with this, but please know that your efforts are still appreciated.
MV@jensimmons I’m sorry to hear that Jen, but sadly not surprised :(
Gustomela 🏕️🪵🐻@jensimmons it’s because they’re burning in envy 🔥
Sacha Greif@jensimmons is this about "Safari is the new IE", or about the iOS webkit monopoly?
If so I think that sucks, people need to learn the difference between criticizing a company's strategy and harassing the very people who are trying to make things better
Jonathan Grenier@jensimmons Sucks so much to hear this. I absolutely appreciate all you've been doing for the community and appreciate all the hard work you and the team have been putting in the last several years.Webkit is improving so much, so quickly! Sorry to hear that once again some terrible people can ruin it all, but know that many like me might be silent but we are very grateful.
David Fitzgibbon@jensimmons boo. You’re doing great work Jen. You’ve turned around the reputation of a browser in a short few years. That’s a mammoth task. And you do it with openness and enthusiasm. You’re a example for the industry.
So sorry to hear people aren’t seeing that.
Joshua Newton@jensimmons sorry that you’ve had to deal with this.