Tampermonkey script: no, Newegg, I don’t freakin’ want to subscribe
Script to prevent Newegg from subscribing me to their spam against my will.
Category Archives: User Experience
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 »
Lessons learned from setting up a Linux desktop VM on a Windows 11 Home host
VirtualBox is more functional than Hyper-V Manager but much slower. There are a lot of tricks for getting this right. If you turn off Secure Boot you might permanently lock yourself out of Windows.
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.
Bad healthcare tech of the day: Boston Children’s Hospital patient portal
The user experience for registering for the portal and checking in for appointments is riddled with problems. We deserve better.
Long time Ubuntu user, first time Debian installer
My hot take: Debian is a good desktop operating system for highly technical people who know how to troubleshoot and fix computer problems, but it may not be the best choice for less technical people looking for a desktop operating system to use instead of Windows or macOS.
Why is PayPal still so incredibly awful?
Even if you jump through all of PayPal’s hoops and give them all the information they ask for when creating an account, they may still decide to arbitrarily lock you out of your account and never restore your access.
How a bad password policy at Bank of America reduces security
When you force people to use hard-to-remember passwords, you’re actually forcing them to use bad passwords.
Trivial discovery of the day: “calorie” data in Garmin data exports is actually joules
Garmin data exports measure activity energy in joules but label it as calories. 1 calorie == 4.184 joules.
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.