Things to do in LA
People will often ask me what they're supposed to visit in LA. Here's a guide… ish What takes off must come down You're probably going to fly in to LA, and if you're planning on landing, you better pick an airport. Ya…
Google Apps Script
If I worked at Google, and it were my job to design products that retain customers, I would look for a few simple things. First, I would make sure it's proprietary. If you can take your business and move to Office 365 or ClickUp, that's not…
The Gift Card Scam
If you know anything about scams, you'll know they often revolve around gift cards. To call something "the gift card scam" would be inaccurate at best. The G2A Gift Card scam is only sort of a scam. Criminals will take stolen credit card details from various…
Goodbye, Authy
A while ago, I wrote a blog post mentioning that Authy discontinued their desktop app. What I forgot about at that moment was that the Authy Desktop app was one of the easiest ways to export your TOTP Secrets and move to another app. Now easiest ≠ easy. You had to…
Fizz Buzz
Some time during freshman year of College, a thousand flyers blanketed campus. This was nothing new, as students have been hanging flyers since the beginning of time. Flyers are supposed to have a literal stamp of approval from the college in order to be hung, though that policy is supposedly…
Used Domains
Today, I bought a domain, and I have some ideas for what I want to do with it. After buying, I pointed the nameservers to Cloudflare, used their DNS to point the domain at my server, and enabled email forwarding with a catch-all. I then checked the Wayback Machine to…
On finals
It's been about a week since I finished my final exams for my Fall 2024 semester. Fuck finals. "They are the worst idea I have ever heard of!" said every student who has ever had to take a final. Those students are right! For those of…
The Worst Manual
My grandmother called, her printer broke. The screen says that the absorber is full. Yuck. Let's pray that Canon made the absorber serviceable. I asked what the printer model it. She says it appears in her printer list as the "Canon PIXMA MG5300 Series". Okay well…