Joshua Rogers' Scribbles

Video Games Around The World: South Africa

Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This was originally written on April 16, 2020 and published on LinkedIn. I’ve decided to move the posts here for better searchability. Those that know me well, know that I am a video game history researcher, and this is just some of my random published articles.

Video Game History Around The World: An Essay.

Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This was originally written on June 12, 2020 and published on LinkedIn. I’ve decided to move the posts here for better searchability. Those that know me well, know that I am a video game history researcher, and this is just some of my random published articles.

Some Thoughts on Cross-Cultural Video Game and Music

Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This was originally written on September 15, 2020 and published on LinkedIn. I’ve decided to move the posts here for better searchability. Those that know me well, know that I am a video game history researcher, and this is just some of my random published articles.

Exploring "Bus Tours" of Nintendo and Sega: The Nintendo Challenger, Campus Challenge, and More.

Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This was originally written on July 10, 2020 and published on LinkedIn. I’ve decided to move the posts here for better searchability. Those that know me well, know that I am a video game history researcher, and this is just some of my random published articles.

Always 'Copy Clean Link' when possible on Firefox, with userChrome.css

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In my last two posts, I outlined how to clean up the right-click menu in Firefox to remove useless buttons, using either about:config or userChrome.css, respectively. One of my major complaints was that when right-clicking a link, I was presented with two buttons: one for ‘Copy Link’, and one for ‘Copy Clean Link’ – with the latter 99.99% of the time being greyed out due to the link already being ‘clean’. I found the greyed out link annoying since it simply cluttered up the menu as an unclickable button; and even if it were clickable, I wouldn’t deliberately use it – I’m so used to clicking ‘Copy Link’ that I just always want to click that; I don’t want to make the split-second decision of copying a link based on two different buttons. In my ideal world, the ‘Copy Link’ button would always clean the link, if possible; but this is not an option in Firefox.

Making Firefox's right-click not suck, even more, with userChrome.css

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Cleaning up right-click with userChrome.css

Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

On a fresh installation of Firefox on MacOS, right-clicking an image while some text on the page is highlighted (to show as many buttons as possible) looks like so:

wtf is NS_ERROR_INVALID_CONTENT_ENCODING? investigating shared dictionaries and ChatGPT breakage in Firefox

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Today I learnt about the NS_ERROR_INVALID_CONTENT_ENCODING error (or “Content Encoding Error”) in Firefox, which started popping up in my Network tab while trying to access ChatGPT. Indeed, while having access to ChatGPT has allowed me to keep up the charade that I actually know what I’m doing in (life|work|security|etc), the service became completely inoperable in Firefox a few days ago. I couldn’t find any analysis online, so I dug into it myself.

From gixy-ng to Gixy-Next: rescuing the nginx security scanner, Gixy, from AI slop

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I recently decided to fork and maintain a new version of the Gixy nginx security tooling, calling my fork Gixy-Next. The official website is https://gixy.io/, and the source code is available on GitHub at MegaManSec/Gixy-Next. The Python package is available on PyPi, but there’s also an online scanner which can be run in your browser (locally; with WASM).

My 2025 Bug Bounty Stories

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This year, I’ve reported more issues via bug bounties than perhaps the past 10 years combined. The issues were all in completely random places, and the only reason they were reported via bug bounty programs is because it is generally impossible to get a human response any other way from tech companies (even when you have a full technical analysis of the issue).