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 »
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.
Comics Kingdom has restored “Bob Mankoff Presents: Show Me The Funny” and “Bob Mankoff Presents: Show Me The Funny (Animal Edition)” from before their website redesign, so I’ve added them back in the aggregator. They’ve also removed “Brian Duffy”, so I’ve removed that from the aggregator. I imagine there are going to be quite a… Read More »
The few of you who read Comics Kingdom through the Comics Aggregator (instructions) may be aware that Comics Kingdom recently redesigned their web site. I have just released a set of changes to the Comics Aggregator to accommodate their redesign. Please note that there are new comics, comics that are no longer available, and comics… Read More »
The Google AdSense ads I show on the comics aggregator don’t come close to covering my costs maintaining the aggregator; every once in a while I get a direct-deposit from Google that’s enough for my family to get takeout. Nevertheless, one of my paid supporters reached out today and commented that he’d rather not see… Read More »
The Comics Aggregator previously used Bitly to generate sharing links for comics pages. Unfortunately, Bitly has recently changed their pricing model, and the aggregator’s use of the service has gone from being free to costing $35 per month. I can’t afford to spend that on a feature that I personally never use, so I’ve turned… Read More »
What started out as a simple message archiving task turned into many hours of debugging, fixing, and cleaning up the old archives. Both frustrating and fun at the same time.