CSS Cachebuster

I’m sure just about every web developer is familiar with client-side stylesheet caching. You know how it goes, you’re making changes to a stylesheet and checking them in your browser and then, all of a sudden, the updates you made don’t show up. When this happens, you either click refresh like a spastic monkey or clear your browser cache and the world returns to normal.

Ideally, adjusting the server’s cache settings. As a stopgap though, or for situations where I don’t have control over the server’s cache settings, I wrote a bookmarklet that reloads all the linked stylesheets with a query string of the current timestamp attached.