Many exciting improvements to the comics aggregator
Many improvements have been made to the aggregator, the most significant of which is that user accounts which remember your comics selections are now supported.
Category Archives: Web
“This Modern World” added to comics aggregator
By way of penance for not removing JumpStart from my comics aggregator much sooner, I have added Tom Tomorrow’s This Modern World. It comes out early Tuesday mornings. There’s also a “(1-day delay)” version in case you like to read your comics in the middle of the night and don’t want to miss it. Quoting… Read More »
Copaganda comic strip JumpStart removed from comics aggregator
With its advocacy of “community policing” and “broken windows policing,” JumpStart crosses my line, from a wrong but tolerable portrayal of American policing, to outright copaganda. I will no longer facilitate its dissemination.
Hack of the day “Jobs Filterer for LinkedIn”, Chrome extension for filtering lists of jobs in LI
I wrote a Chrome extension to filter job listings in LinkedIn because LinkedIn itself is bad at this.
“Alice” added to Comics Aggregator
The comic strip “Alice” has been added to my Comics Aggregator. This is a Comics Kingdom strip, so there are steps you need to take to be able to view it through the aggregator. Please remember to tip your waiter if you enjoy the aggregator.
Two examples of why the CDC is the Keystone Kops of disease control
I want to give two examples, one medical and one technological, of the kind of buffoonery that the CDC is engaging in that continues to make them untrustworthy as a disease-control organization. Medical buffoonery Here are some things that COVID-19 research and recently collected epidemiological data are telling us at the moment: Here is what… Read More »
Dear Sony, why are you so bad at this
What should have been a simple transaction on my PS4 instead turns out to be an hour+-long debacle of things going wrong.
How to protect your anonymity online when the services you use could be breached
Twitter is in the news again with another security breach in which 235 million users’ email addresses, phone numbers, and Twitter handles were exposed. These seems like a good opportunity to talk about what you can / should do to protect yourself if you need to maintain anonymity online. The basic rule is this: if… Read More »
Your data is yours: backing up your Mastodon data to protect against server failures and account suspensions
Long-time readers of my blog will know that I am obsessed with backups and with keeping control over data that belongs to me. For example, in additional to a comprehensive backup system I built myself, I have an archive of (legally obtained) music files and movies because I don’t trust any of the cloud music… Read More »
Comics: Funky Winkerbean ceased publication, Crankshaft; Mother Goose & Grimm moved from Comics Kingdom to GoComics
Regarding my comics aggregator, three updates effective January 1, 2023: For those who don’t know what I’m talking about…