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.
Author Archives: jik
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.
Boston online poll-worker training thread
Thread of posts about online Boston poll-worker training.
Comics: Most recent “This Modern World” published early
Please note that the most recent edition of the This Modern World comic was published a few days early and therefore the comics aggregator didn’t pick it up. That bug has been fixed so next time it will be picked up, but for those of you who want to see the early one, here you… Read More »
2024 Massachusetts ballot questions: my recommendations
YES, YES, YES, YES, YES.
My routine for rebuilding my Linux laptops from scratch
Maybe you’re sufficiently Linux-nerdy that you’ll enjoy glancing at this. Or maybe not, whatever. 😉