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Notes from the workbench
What building and maintaining a family of small software products actually involves — the decisions, the mistakes and the details that don’t fit in a changelog.
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Why my extension ignored the language users picked
A manual language switch worked in the right-click menu but not in the Gmail side panel. The cause was a fetch that content scripts are not allowed to make.
· 4 min read
Three Chrome Web Store rejections and the fixes
Yellow Argon, Red Nickel and Purple Potassium — what each rejection code actually objected to in my extensions, and the exact change that got them approved.
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Indexable, not indexed: honest wording for an SEO tool
Why PageRank Status never shows a PageRank score, says a page is indexable rather than indexed, and keeps features it doesn't have out of its copy.
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Turning a MediaRecorder WebM into a GIF in the browser
Converting a screen recording to GIF with no server: the Infinity duration bug, frame sampling, 256-color quantization and a responsive page.
Behind the scenes, once a month
What we shipped, what worked and what flopped across every product we run. One email a month, nothing else.