Theresa O’Connor [tɝˈisə oʊˈkɔnɝ]

Recent posts (feed)

• Styling empty <figure> elements (October 2023)
• Polyglots don’t lead to interoperability (September 2023)
• Some thoughts on my particular brand of ADHD (September 2023)
• W3C TAG Ethical Web Principles (transcript) (September 2023)
• España (September 2023)
• Pseudo-elements for tracks and thumbs (August 2023)
• θ Ursae Majoris (August 2023)
• France (May 2023)
• 日本 (Japan) (April 2023)
• cohost (December 2022)

Personal

I’m a queer trans lady, Erin Jr.’s mama, and Eryn’s girlfriend. Among other things, I’m fond of craft beer, the Defenestration of Prague, Emacs, mechanical keyboards, HTML, sapphic art and literature, various sports, Star Trek, travel, turtles (and tortoises), walking the streets and hills of San Francisco, watches, and the Web.

I’m hoping to get better at taking naps as I get older.

EJ, Eryn, and I live in San Francisco, which sits on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples. I grew up in the Boston area, went to college in Indiana, and spent a decade in San Diego before moving up here to the Bay Area.

Professional

I manage the Web Standards & Interoperability team at Apple. Here’s my résumé.

Site map

• my chart,
• the site colophon,
• my config files,
• various Emacs Lisp libraries I’ve written,
• some markup experiments of mine,
• posts by tag or by date:
  • Nineties: 1998, ’99
  • Aughts: 2000, ’01, ’02, ’03, ’04, ’05, ’06, ’07, ’08, ’09
  • Teens: 2010, ’11, ’12, ’13, ’14, ’15, ’16, ’17, ’18, ’19
  • Twenties: 2020, ’21, ’22, ’23
• my résumé,
• teams I support,
• slides or video from talks I’ve given,
• where I’ve traveled,
• and my watch collection.

Elsewhere

I’m on cohost, GitHub, Instagram, Mastodon, Pixelfed, Reddit, WatchCrunch, w3.org, and many other sites.