TIL recap: Did you know that incorrectly applied ARIA roles can nuke semantics entirely? The standard rule applies: if you're reaching for ARIA, make sure you know what you're doing.

https://www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-learned/aria-roles-can-remove-their-childrens-semantics/

For some UI elements closing behavior should be built in. A modal closes on `ESC`, but on mobile a native gesture (e.g. Android's swipe) can jump the browser back into history. How do you catch these? That's what `CloseWatcher` is for.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CloseWatcher

TIL Firefox and Safari ship "quirks files" with site-specific fixes for sites that break in their browsers.

Thanks to Chrome's monopoly, testing in other browsers is often forgotten. And if things don't work, blame goes to the browser.

https://denodell.com/blog/browsers-treat-big-sites-differently

The current state of AccentColor/AccentColorText:
4 browsers, 4 different color pairs

From left to right: Chrome 148 (stable), Chrome 150 (canary), Safari, Firefox.

- No browser uses the actual accent-color value (Sep 2025 spec change)
- Chrome removed support, but is re-adding it with a hardcoded blue and automatic AccentColorText
- Safari hardcodes blue and seems to always resolve AccentColorText to black? Yikes.
- Firefox actually uses my OS accent color and automatic AccentColorText

This is super sad!

https://2ality.com

I wish you good luck with finding new path @rauschma and I wanted to thank you for your contributions and sharing your knowledge for the past years. I learned a lot from you!

Thanks you.

Here's a strange situation:

thousands of #Rust developers use #bacon, #broot, #dysk, or #lazy-regex every single day — tools I wrote, maintain, and improve for free.

Their companies, though? None of them want to hire their author.

If you use my tools at work and your company does #Rust, I'd really appreciate a hand landing a job or freelance mission. A boost goes a long way. 🙏🦀

https://dystroy.org