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.
Category Archives: Web
“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?
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.
Tampermonkey script: no, Newegg, I don’t freakin’ want to subscribe
Script to prevent Newegg from subscribing me to their spam against my will.
Tampermonkey script to un-Gmail Google Contacts
When you click on a contact’s email address in the Google Contacts web app, instead of opening a new draft in your default email app with the “To” field populated with that email address, which is what it should do, Google Contacts opens a Gmail compose window. I hate this behavior. While I do have… Read More »
Cutting ties with Google Ads
Ads from Google are too scammy and too intrusive. I should have turned them off long ago. Now I have. If you appreciate that, please consider kicking in a few bucks to make up for the lost revenue.
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.