Your company just announced a bold digital transformation initiative. The slide deck is gorgeous. The buzzwords are immaculate. And buried in slide 47, in a font size legally too small to read, it says 'IE11 compatibility required.' Congratulations — you've been modernized.
Jul 16, 2026
Microsoft promised us a revolutionary AI coding assistant, and sure enough, it's revolutionary — in the same way Internet Explorer was revolutionary. It technically works, it's somehow mandatory at your job, and it requires a workaround for everything you actually need it to do.
Jul 15, 2026
We spent a decade screaming into the void about Internet Explorer's compatibility nightmares, proprietary quirks, and fragmentation sins. Now, squinting at our modern browser landscape, something deeply uncomfortable is staring back at us. Turns out, we didn't slay the dragon — we just gave it a faster JavaScript engine.
Jul 13, 2026
Something strange is happening in the darkest corners of tech Twitter and Reddit: seasoned developers are defending Internet Explorer with a straight face. Turns out the browser that made us pull our hair out for a decade might have quietly been the best teacher we ever had.
Jul 12, 2026
Internet Explorer is dead. It has been for a while now. So why do so many developers find themselves weirdly, inexplicably sentimental about the browser that consumed years of their professional lives? This is an opinion piece about grief, identity, and the strange comfort of a predictable enemy.
Jul 11, 2026