Release announcements, extension dev logs, tutorials, and occasional thoughts from an indie developer who builds browser tools for a living.
Version 7.13 ships with a major overhaul to Shadow DOM video detection, making the hover-reveal PiP button work on Reddit, Twitch embeds, and other players that nest video elements inside closed shadow trees. YouTube auto-PiP is also improved with a cleaner IntersectionObserver setup and better SPA navigation handling.
Read full post →A walkthrough of the recursive findAllVideos() function and why patching Element.prototype.attachShadow was the right call for catching late-mounted players.
The biggest Dark Reader Button release yet. v2.9 adds a persistent per-site preference system, a stronger Dark+ mode for stubborn light-background sites, and custom color overrides for text and links.
A practical guide on taking a Tampermonkey script and packaging it as a Chrome/Firefox/Safari/Edge/Opera extension — including the manifest differences, permissions model, and Safari's Xcode wrapping step.
After years of releasing tools through forums, userscript repositories, and GitHub, the extensions now have a real home — with product pages, changelogs, legal docs, support, and a blog.
Safari's Web Extension Converter does most of the heavy lifting, but there are a handful of API differences around Picture-in-Picture, content script timing, and storage APIs that need manual patching.
A reference breakdown of requestPictureInPicture() vs webkitSetPresentationMode(), what each browser supports, and how PiP Button falls back gracefully across the full matrix.