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 will not send traffic to a newspaper that can’t figure out how to oppose fascism on its editorial page.
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 »
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.
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 »
Maybe you’re sufficiently Linux-nerdy that you’ll enjoy glancing at this. Or maybe not, whatever. 😉
Looking at you, Square.
The next-generation email parser in Python silently ignores data it doesn’t understand, sometimes to the detriment of the caller.
Whatever Eastern Bank’s priorities were in rolling out its new portal, good UX and security seemingly weren’t among them.
This was a satisfying exercise with the right amount of complexity to make it just enough of a challenge to be interesting without being frustrating.