Digest for September 2017

Summary

This month I advised people of a well-known but oft-forgotten trick to avoid spam to your GMail account by using a plus-sign and some arbitrary text (or the name of the company you’re dealing with) in your email address, and shared with minimal interpretation a web app I’d developed: fnorders.com. I also made my first attempt to publicly call out the library of the Bilkent University for ripping off the design of the website of the Bodleian Libraries.

I shared posts promoting the upcoming GDPR, discussing the popular (mis-)use of the .cat TLD and the side-effects of that, and a poem for which git was both the medium and the message.

All posts

Posts marked by an asterisk (*) are referenced by the summary above.

Articles

• GMail Tip: Use A Plus Sign To Avoid Spam *
• Fnorders *

Checkins

• Dan Q found GLT6GHG2 Instrumental

Notes

• Hey @KutphaneBilkent (Bilkent University Library): couldn’t help but notice your website looks suspiciously like those of @bodleianlibs…? https://t.co/8ehxUxLNHz *

Reposts

Reposts marked with a dagger (†) include my comments or interpretation.

• Technorgy
• git poem *
• The Bad Hair, Incorrect Feathering, and Missing Skin Flaps of Dinosaur Art
• For the love of god, not everything is about cats *
• git git git git git
• Why I Still Use Vim
• C&H 4614
• C&H 4608
• Not Dogs Gets a Revamp!
• Browning
• Data-hucksters beware: online privacy is returning *