Cutting ties with Google Ads
Ads from Google are too scammy and too intrusive. I should have turned them off long ago. Now I have. If you appreciate that, please consider kicking in a few bucks to make up for the lost revenue.
How to send a letter to Vanguard
You can send correspondence to Vanguard at P.O. Box 982901, El Paso, TX 79998-2901. Vanguard makes it hard on purpose to find this address.
My perfect potato latkes
I’m the potato latke maker in my family. I long ago stopped making them from a recipe; I just kind of wing it every time. However, given that we pretty much only make them on Chanukah, a year goes by between batches, and hard-earned lessons are forgotten. This blog posting is my attempt to capture… Read More »
FOSS of the day: Ansible module for editing CUPS configuration files
I recently got a new printer, and as I’ve tweaked the integration between my printer and the numerous Linux desktops and laptops in my house, I became frustrated by how time-consuming and error-prone it was to have to use the Printers section of the GNOME Settings app, or the Printer Settings app (a.k.a. system-config-printer) to… Read More »
Using Google Calendar to make it easy and free for people to schedule time with you outside your job
If you need people to be able to schedule meetings with you that don’t show up on your work calendar, this post’s for you.
Yet another night debugging email delivery problems
I’ve run my own mail server for 30+ years. It’s a pain sometimes, but I’m a stubborn old cuss and I think it’s worth it both because I value my privacy and don’t want my emails being stored on somebody else’s servers, and because I’m a sysadmin at heart and I love a good sysadmin… Read More »
I endorse Kamala Harris for president
It shouldn’t need to be said, and yet, it does.
Comics aggregator: Washington Post links now go through a page archiving service
I will not send traffic to a newspaper that can’t figure out how to oppose fascism on its editorial page.
Comics aggregator: Damon Young removed, Carolyn Hax & Miss Manners fixed
I’ve removed the Damon Young column in the Washington Post from the comics aggregator because he hasn’t written anything there for two years so I’m pretty sure he’s no longer being published in the Post. Over the past day or so the Post did something to break the other columns from there that the aggregator… Read More »
Case study: anonymizing email addresses for online accounts
Why you might want to anonymize the email addresses for your online accounts, some techniques for how to do that, and the details of how I did it myself, including stats, stories, and scripts.