Posts tagged: web

• When Gemini's Answer Column Is Narrower Than Its Own Table September 23, 2026

  Google Gemini's web UI answered with a table just wider than its reply column. It scrolled, but I wanted one screenshot of the whole thing. I couldn't find the culprit in DevTools, so I asked Gemini to fix itself. Here's the CSS that worked, and why it's a sledgehammer.

• Building a Dark Mode Toggle That Plays Nice With Dark Reader August 12, 2026

  How to detect the Dark Reader browser extension and gracefully step aside — with a MutationObserver, a one-liner CSS trick, and a lesson I learned the hard way about why this actually matters.

• Every Site I've Ever Run — A History Since 1998 September 3, 2023

  A running list of the websites I've owned and operated since 1998 — from Perl scripts on shared hosting to GCP-deployed static sites.

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