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Live HTML in `<canvas`> is now a thing in current Chrome (with a flag enabled), and people are doing wild stuff with it to “bring fun back to the web”! Whereas I have just used it to enhance a tool we use at @igalia, because I am a boring stick in the mud. But an occasionally productive one.
(If you’re only now hearing about this, an explainer with many examples: https://frontendmasters.com/blog/the-web-is-fun-again-first-experiments-with-html-in-canvas/)
Entire chapters of internet culture grew up in Flash. When it was switched off, most of it should have disappeared forever. But it didn't, thanks to the efforts of the software preservation community and dedicated archivists.
Flash is just part of the story of VANISHING CULTURE, a new book exploring the fight to preserve our fragile digital history.
Join us at the book launch. 📖
📅 Thu, April 23
🕠 5:30 PM: Doors open & entertainment
📍 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/vanishing-culture-book-launch/
If you're gonna read one annual report today, pick this one. I'm proud of the work we do at the Foundation and the wider movement. While I'm fortunate to see that every day, these annual reports do a great job of distilling down the big highlights. #wikipedia
https://wikimediafoundation.org/annualreports/2024-2025-annual-report/
Annual Report 2024-2025 The people’s knowledge: Your impact in 2024-25 Our 2024-2025 Annual Report gives you the people behind the knowledge that we all rely on. These people are editors. And donors. And software engineers. And they all have this in common: They improved Wikipedia not just once but repeatedly throughout the year. Wikipedia benefits….
@WordPress/build is a new build tool for WordPress plugins that replaces webpack and Babel with esbuild, auto-generates PHP script registration, and requires zero config. It already powers all 100+ Gutenberg packages. The API is still being shaped, and your feedback is welcome. https://developer.wordpress.org/news/?p=5992
@wordpress/build replaces webpack and Babel with esbuild, auto-generates your PHP script registration from package.json conventions, and requires zero config. It already builds all 100+ Gutenberg packages. The plan is for it to power @wordpress/scripts under the hood — so wp-scripts build stays the same, but gets faster and drops the hand-written PHP. The API is still open for input. This is what it does and where it needs your feedback.
Two weeks to go.
Join us for a11yTalks: Accessibility: The Never-Ending Story with AmyJune Hineline.
Accessibility isn’t something you finish. It shifts as content, teams, and standards evolve. This session explores how to keep accessibility from slipping and build workflows that sustain progress over time.
Learn more and register:
https://a11ytalks.com/posts/2026-apr
On Winging It today, @jamessw, @mia and I will go over some dos and don'ts of CSS Anchor Positioning.
Send us your questions and join us at live 1pm ET
https://www.youtube.com/live/OEvVW4wQUII
It was great fun to conduct a Workshop at WordCamp Asia contributor day. Roughly 100 students were in the class and it was a great interactive session. I also know that there were quite a few of you who didn’t get to join us because there wasn’t enough room. Birgit Pauli-Haack workshop on the block…
💢 MRI scans reveal how the brain processes toxic workplace abuse
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03-mri-scans-reveal-brain-toxic.html
What happens in the brain when someone witnesses toxic behavior in the workplace? Researchers at Rutgers Business School, in a first-time collaboration with the Center for Advanced Human Brain Imaging Research at the Rutgers Brain Health Institute, used an MRI scanner to find out.
Here are the Web Platform features sorted by upcoming Widely Available status: https://webstatus.dev/?q=baseline_status%3Anewly&columns=name%2Cbaseline_status&column_options=baseline_status_high_date&sort=baseline_status_asc&num=100
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A11yTalks
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wpbot 
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