Oliver Geer

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A student in the #UK. A nerd with several interests. I am particularly interested in...

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Homepagehttps://oliver.geer.im
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Languages (most confident first)British English 5/5, Español/Castellano 4/5, 简体中文/华语/普通话 1/5
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KDE projects in Google Summer of Code 2025.

New KDE contributors will be tackling adapting Merkuro to mobile, adding video-conferencing to NeoChat, creating a virtual machine manager for KDE Linux, and many more interesting and useful things.

Discover all the projects at:

https://mentorship.kde.org/blog/2025-05-12-gsoc-start/

#GSoC2025 #GSoC #mentorship #openSource #FreeSoftware

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KDE & Google Summer of Code 2025

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a training/mentorship program that allows new contributors to open source to work on projects for 175 to 350 hours under the guidance of experienced mentors.

KDE Mentorship

EU citizens, if you want in while you can, there's a EU citizen's petition for the EU to ban "conversion therapy" (this is as ominous as it sounds) of LGBTQs, with 7 days left to sign.

It will not make the threshold, but might be able to rack up a few more country thresholds— I'm happy to note Spain just hit it. Belgium and The Netherlands are the next best bets as they're over 65%; If you know queer-friendly folks in those countries, maybe a good time to forward this:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

If you can, offer light, dark, low contrast and high contrast mode options. It’s great for everyone’s eyes to have alternatives. Avoid too hight contrasts like pure white on black. #accessibility #a11y
@aral I'm mostly just angry at all the carousels and modals 😅

@ajaxStardust @heydon I suppose there are a bunch of things that CSS now does better for a number of reasons, that were previously done via JS (like animations), and those can (and should) be implemented in CSS now for a number of reasons.

(But it doesn’t change the fact that CSS is a mess. 😏)

A T-shirt for lovers of the three core web technologies. https://webbed-briefs.teemill.com/product/not-you-tee/
Not you tee

(Web technologies listed in Helvetica font, with JavaScript crossed out and marked "not you")

Webbed Briefs

The CSS Working Group is currently discussing something in CSS that's in this world.

Often Browser 2 doesn't want to update, because they are already correctly following the web standard. So it's Browser 1 that needs to change, but websites are already depending on the behavior they have, and changing it could break websites.

THIS is why is so very important for all browsers to implement according to a mature standard, and not rush things out the door. Or ship when there's spec disagreement.

I recently saw someone use #LoFi to refer to local first software, and I *love* that appropriation of the term. LoFi is chill. LoFi is about being left alone whether to focus and get things done or just vibe.

Let's make more #LoFiSoftware

Yes, I understand, you love your beautiful web design and want everyone to enjoy it but please, for the love of Zeus, don't force the scrollbars to be so teeny I can't even grab them with my mouse. #CSS #WebDesign #Accessibility

BELGIUM JUST HIT THE MINIMUM THRESHOLD! :3333

That's five member states hitting their threshold!

Need two more to hit the minimum requirement AND 1mil signatures!

It's gonna be close, but it's not over till its over!

Deadline is 17-5-2025

EU Citizens' Initiative to ban "conversion therapy" of queer people:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

#eu #queer #europe #lgbt #lgbtq #gay #lesbian #trans #enby #conversiontherapyban #conversiontherapy