Rachel Andrew

Content lead for Chrome DevRel at Google. Opinions (and cats) my own.

Blog: https://rachelandrew.co.uk

Last Notes

2025-06-17 06:19:04 GMT

Bristol looking beautiful this morning.
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/114/697/249/922/338/201/original/49debe9070f6f47e.jpg

2025-02-21 07:50:01 GMT

Heading out to run this morning my Garmin told me I was -2. Rude! I want a device that tells me I'm +10 for leaving the house at all given the fact it's raining/my socks feel weird/there's a high chance of being chased by a goose.

2024-12-06 12:22:17 GMT

The results of the State of CSS and State of HTML surveys are now live. I took an initial look at what the responses tell us. https://web.dev/blog/state-of-css-html-2024

2024-10-31 09:59:59 GMT

For years, I've been hoping for more of the paged media specifications to come to browsers. In the next version of Chrome (131, now in beta) the ability to create your own header and footer content for printed content is here! Find out more in this post.
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/print-margins

2024-10-21 13:56:51 GMT

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This sounds like something that would be immediately stolen by a cat in my house.

2024-10-13 14:14:01 GMT

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Does that include people taking notes? Conference talks aren't a great way for me to get information, so if I attend I take notes as writing is how I get things into my brain (also we share reports of events with our team). However, I can't handwrite notes, due to nerve damage in my dominant hand. I do usually lurk at the back so as not to be distracting to anyone and try not to type in a heavy handed manner.

2024-10-11 22:46:53 GMT

I'm tired. Writing the Chrome beta post in a hotel bar, with a surprisingly decent cocktail, and looking at these enormous lights. Are there factories that churn out massive lights for Hiltons?
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/113/291/195/222/350/353/original/1fd90f4ea2469bb4.jpg

2024-09-21 16:07:15 GMT

Some personal, rather than Chrome team, thoughts on why I think defining masonry as part of CSS grid would be a mistake. It's about teaching and good defaults. https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2024/09/21/masonry-and-good-defaults/ #css

2024-09-19 10:12:42 GMT

The two possible syntaxes for CSS masonry have been merged into one draft specification. It's a lot to get through, so we wrote a post explaining the differences between creating a masonry layout with display: masonry and with display: grid. Take a look, and if you have an opinion one way or the other, let us know! #CSS
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/masonry-syntax

2024-09-16 06:49:30 GMT

I recorded a short video for TPAC to introduce the reading-flow property, which now has an experimental implementation in Chrome. https://www.w3.org/2024/09/TPAC/demo-css.html
#css #w3c

2024-06-28 18:55:36 GMT

A note from a very tired editor, it is almost always more appropriate to write "use" rather than utilize or leverage.