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Browser adoption rates

For two years in 2020 and 2021, I shared Wikipedia’s worldwide browser statistics on Mastodon under #browserstats. They looked a little something like this: As the data includes the browser’s major version, I wondered whether I could use this to follow the adoption rate through each browser’s release cycle. The short answer is… Yes! Here…

How to protect yourself from npm

What’s the worst that could happen after npm install?

Six years of BrowseHappy

Six years ago (in 2012), I was looking for a newsletter about browser releases. At the time, my motivation was to test and update the jQuery TestSwarm framework for each new browser release. I found a simple overview at browsehappy.com, by @WordPress.  (1/) Lacking RSS, I decided to simply check it on a regular basis, and…

QUnit anti-patterns

Today, I’d like to challenge the assert.ok and assert.not* methods. I believe they may’ve become an anti-pattern.

PhantomJS for CI (anno 2014)

How did Apple create Safari, and what is PhantomJS?