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Tara Siegel

Tara Siegel

Senior Software Engineer II

Senior Software Engineer II

Tara Siegel is a Senior Software Engineer at Vox Media, working closely with The Verge. She has been at the company for over 10 years, spanning almost every team and brand. Tara holds a BSE in Computer Science & Digital Media Design from the University of Pennsylvania and previously worked at YouTube & NBCUniversal. Outside of tech, Tara is a cyclist, skier, and an avid baker. She currently lives in Salt Lake City.

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Boule & Babka
Boule & Babka
A small spill.

Hi Verge humans - quick update. It’s been a minute since our last post, but rest assured, our human, and the whole Verge Product team, have been hard at work on some very exciting new features. That said, a recent incident involving a full water bottle, a brief unsupervised moment, and an unnamed curious kitty did result in a dramatic spill across the work laptop. We found it uninteresting; our human did not. Progress continues (now with more fan-drying), and all the fun, cool things are still very much on the way.

PSA: don’t leave open drinks near laptops unsupervised or you may experience keyboard hydration. Our human says she’s learned her lesson. We have not.

Warm regards,
Boule & Babka

Tara Siegel
Tara Siegel
Tara Siegel
Sent from Slack.

Maybe not the flashiest update for readers, but it’s a big one for us: Verge writers can now publish the quippier stuff directly from Slack (like I’m doing right now!). The result should be more quick hits from your favorite Verge voices.

Tara Siegel
Tara Siegel
It’s typical for ad blockers to remove CSS classes containing ‘ad’.

But Brave takes it a step further and strips a common Tailwind class we used for positioning the header: “bottom-0”. Why? We can only guess the Brave team decided to remove anything with the word ‘bot’ in it… a noble thought, but a touch overkill in practice, given the popularity of Tailwind and unpredictability of CSS class names.

Thank you, Brave, for what may have been The Verge’s most comical bug to date. (And please stop stripping bottom-0.)

Side by side images of what the article page looked like before and after the fix. On the left side of each example, the saturated color takes up the entire page, making the black text on dark background hard to see. The right shows it fixed where just the top header has this color background.
When Brave stripped bottom-0 on The Verge, certain article templates became inaccessible, extending a saturated color background behind article text
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