How I remember my YubiKey, take two
How I avoid forgetting my YubiKey at work or at home using Tasker and AutoNotification from João Dias on Android, and systemd, udev and Notify from Kevin Bedi on Linux.
The state of Mozilla Thunderbird development is uncertain
The Thunderbird team needs to figure out how to make it possible for extension maintainers to port their extensions to newer Thunderbird versions without a huge amount of effort. Many Thunderbird users rely on extensions, and they are going to keep using Thunderbird 60 until the extensions they rely on are supported in newer versions.
People who own businesses should not act like assholes
Mr. Tobin Jones, owner of MatrixTechs LLC in Miami, Florida, picked the wrong person to harass online. Righteous indignation man strikes again!
How not to design a monthly statement email
This Massachusetts Department of Transportation web site provides the user with an incredibly poor user experience!
Boycott Amazon until they come clean about recent data breach
Early on November 21, 2018, I along with an undetermined number of other Amazon customers received the following email from Amazon: This breach notification lacked most of the information expected to be included in a breach notification from any reputable company, including: How was the information disclosed? For how long was the information accessible? How… Read More »
Chronology of a terrible (as usual) interaction with Google Pixel support
Google’s Pixel support is terrible. Here’s a story demonstrating how terrible it is.
Brookline parking meter credit card fee is obnoxious, yes, but also illegal
Dear Mr. Kleckner [Melvin Kleckner, Brookline MA Town Administrator], I was so happy to see that the Town of Brookline is continuing its ongoing efforts to make parking in Brookline as unpleasant as possible by recently adding a 30-cent fee for all credit-card transactions in parking meters. I’m sure the owners of small businesses in… Read More »
How to get browsers AND Cloudflare to cache a single page on your WordPress site
I maintain the Send Later Thunderbird add-on, which has something on the order of 80,000 active users (exact numbers are unknown because statistics collection on addons.thunderbird.org has been broken for months). The user guide for Send Later, which includes the release notes, is published elsewhere on this blog. Whenever I publish a new major or… Read More »
T-Mobile’s “high-speed” mobile hotspot add-on isn’t
T-Mobile is lying about their high-speed mobile hotspot add-on. It doesn’t work. It isn’t high-speed.
“Cash App” from Square fails the basic competence test
TL;DR After less than 24 hours of using the “Cash App” from Square, I conclude that the people who built, maintain, and support the app are incompetent, and it has therefore earned on my list of apps and services I will never use again. I have removed the app from my phone, and if anyone… Read More »