Rollout of new Massachusetts unemployment site handled poorly for people with multiple email addresses
Telling people “Your email addresses on the two sites need to match!” without telling them what to do if they don’t is a user-hostile act.
Category Archives: Internet
Comics aggregator: New Comics Kingdom vintage comics are NOT working in the aggregator
Hi all! Yesterday’s announcement about vintage comics at Comics Kingdom was premature. It appears that although they have added these new vintage comics to the website, they have not yet figured out how to include them in people’s daily favorites emails, so it is not yet possible to read them in the aggregator. I will… Read More: Comics aggregator: New Comics Kingdom vintage comics are NOT working… »
Comics aggregator: new vintage comic support, a couple comics removed
At long last, the folks over at Comics Kingdom have updated their web site to fully support all of their vintage comics. This means that the comics aggregator now supports the following additional Comics Kingdom comics: Just as a reminder, to view Comics Kingdom comics through the aggregator you need to pay for a subscription,… Read More: Comics aggregator: new vintage comic support, a couple comics removed »
“Human Interest” is terrible
Several years ago I worked for a company which outsourced management of their 401k to Human Interest. It was… not a positive experience. I don’t remember all the details—I’ve worked pretty hard to forget them since they were so unpleasant—but suffice it to say that it was my impression that they weren’t terribly good at… Read More: “Human Interest” is terrible »
Comics aggregator: GoComics integration was broken, is now fixed
GoComics just rolled out a completely new web site, which broke the integration with my comics aggregator. I’ve fixed it.
“Phoebe and her Unicorn” is, alas, now Sunday-only
As of March 30, 2025, the Phoebe and her Unicorn comic strip has transitioned from daily to Sundays-only. See what the creator of the strip, Dana Simpson has to say about it here. The comics aggregator has been updated to reflect this.
I see that Verizon’s customer website and onboarding experience still sucks as bad as it always has
Verizon’s website and their FIOS customer onboarding processes are full of problems and have been for at least a decade. I ran into nearly 30 of them just trying to complete the simple task of signing up for FIOS service. How do they get away with this?
WaPo article about Signal use by feds with me as lead-off hitter
This morning over at The Washington Post ([archive link]), Shira Ovide, Danielle Abril, and Hannah Natanson write about Signal use among federal workers. I’m the lede (funsies!). This is a great article capturing the mood among federal workers right now, and it makes relatively clear that while what Pete Hegseth et al are doing is… Read More: WaPo article about Signal use by feds with me as… »
Comcast attempts to intimidate me into taking down a blog post
Comcast sent me two intimidating letters and a bogus DMCA takedown notice in a misguided effort to get me to take down content they didn’t like because it has Comcast executive email addresses in it.
Online privacy protection for people in the resistance: DeleteMe, Block Party
If you can make it go from taking 30 seconds to 30 minutes for a bad actor to find something private about you online, you’ll dramatically decrease the number of people willing to go through the effort. Think of it like putting an alarm-system sign on your lawn to encourage burglars to skip your house.