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cypress masso recently entered her post-Bocoup era, and while her stans haven’t yet agreed on the name of that era, we think it’s only right to reflect on what made our two years together so remarkable. Among other credentials, cypress’ long history of empathy and technical acumen in open-source projects made her an easy hire. […]

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Farewell, cypress

We’ve spent years building systems that abscond with the messages that screen readers typically speak to their users. Spiriting away these parcels of text has been a thrill, but before we can get into all the intrigue, you’ll have to know a bit about how we got here. During our years-long participation in ARIA-AT, we’ve […]

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Smuggling Words – The Challenge of Recording Screen Reader Output

Illustration by Isaac Durazo tl;dr Bocoup has transitioned to a cooperative model, with each team member serving as a worker-owner of the consultancy. We are sharpening our focus to capture-resistant, privacy-preserving, public-interest technology. Interoperability, accessibility, and testing will continue to be a core part of our work. We’re keeping the same corporate entity, so our […]

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Bocoup Is Now Worker-Owned

Today is my last day as the owner of and Founding Principal at Bocoup. Please join me in congratulating the six new owners of the company: the Bocoup Workers Collective! The Collective has taken over leadership and operations. The Collective has prepared a post with FAQs and a group statement to answer questions we’ve gotten […]

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Ciao Bocoup

Interop is turning 4 this year! (Well, 5 actually if you count its inception as Compat 2021). Browser interoperability remains an important value for us at Bocoup. We view interoperability as an essential counter to monopolization of the web. Interoperability makes the web more accessible and inclusive for all. In 2024, the collective efforts of […]

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Interop 2025 Launch

A few of our colleagues and partners have asked for an overview of WPT. We wrote this internal overview and history, which we want to also share publicly here as a reference for anyone interested in the how the project operates and came to be. What is WPT? Introduction Web Platform Tests, stylized `web-platform-tests` or […]

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WPT: An overview and history

Between implementing brand-new technology and fixing bugs in existing code, the folks who make web browsers have no end of important work to do. The problem space is so vast, in fact, that even deciding where to start is a challenge. That’s where you come in! But first, some background. The Web Platform Tests Interop […]

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Interop 2025 Call for Proposals

As part of our ongoing commitment to building a more just digital landscape, we have been thinking a lot about privacy this year. We’ve also been trying out Remix and though we wish the project was still working towards a renderer-agnostic architecture, we appreciate its reliance on web standards. Many technologists care about privacy and […]

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Announcing the Privacy Stack for Remix

We have been deploying node apps to VPS and bare metal at Bocoup for almost 15 years, and with the growing number of full service hosting platforms, we thought this would be a good time to document how to do it yourself in 2024 for those of you who would still like to. We think […]

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How to run a DIY node server in 2024

Push notifications are supported across major browsers, and with their recent addition to iOS last year, they are a compelling integration for the web. We recently built an installable web application with push notifications called Robert’s App (read the iOS install instructions to test it out). We built the application with remix.run and implemented notifications […]

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Full Stack Web Push API Guide