A new, new logo for the W3C đź”—
In an effort to pivot this site into a full on graphic design side business after 2 blog posts about logos in a row (hit me up exclusivly on FB to req [...]
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The origins of the WHATWG Compat Standard logo đź”—
Note from the future (Oct 20, 2025): I just opened my editor and found this half-written draft. Might as well publish it. It’s a bit awkward that I ha [...]
Remember when the IE 11 User-Agent forced Mozilla to freeze part of its User-Agent string (last week) đź”—
If you happen to be using Firefox Beta 109 on an overpriced MacBook Pro that has a sticky letter s today (the 29th of December, 2022), this is what th [...]
How to get the Chrome major version from the User-Agent or UA-CH headers đź”—
Over the weekend frontend-firebrand Alex Russell tweeted that it’s confusing these days to know how to get the major version of a Chromium browser, ei [...]
Chrome 100 Breakage Playbook đź”—
If you somehow found this blog post because you googled or binged “site not working Chrome 100”, well, congrats my SEO trap worked successfully. Also, [...]
How to delete your jQuery Reject Plugin in 1 easy step. đź”—
In my last post on testing Chrome version 100, I encouraged everyone to flip on that flag and report bugs. It’s with a heavy heart that I announce tha [...]
Testing Chrome version 100 for fun and profit (but mostly fun I guess) đź”—
Great news readers, my self-imposed 6 month cooldown on writing amazing blog posts has expired. My pal Ali just added a flag to Chromium to allow you [...]
Slack is optimized for Firefox version 520 đź”—
Last week my pal Karl sent me a link to web-bug 67866: which has the cool title “menu buttons don’t work in Firefox version 100”. It turns out that Mo [...]
Obsolete RFCs and obsolete Cookie Path checking comments đź”—
The other day I was reading Firefox’s CookieService.cpp to figure out how Firefox determines its maximum cookie size (more on that one day, maybe) whe [...]
The Mike Taylor method™ of naming git branches 🔗
I thought I would document how I do branching in git because it’s clearly the best a perfectly acceptable way to do it, especially if you use GitHub. [...]