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Sometimes, when connecting to public Wi-Fi hotposts, especially in airports and coffee shops, the captive portal gateway required to get internet access will simply not show up. ...

I got myself a brand new domain! As I play with it, expect documentation to be added. How to query the WHOIS for the domain? ...

Let’s discuss the raison d’etre of Google Chrome for Testing, a project I was the Tech Lead of during my tenure on the Chrome Tooling / Browser Automation team at Google. ...

Some websites attempt to prevent users from pasting text (i.e. Ctrl+V / Cmd+V) in web browsers. It serves no purpose in most cases other than hindering accessibility and increasing annoyance for users. ...

Sometimes I need to start a local HTTP server for a quick one-off task, often just to serve static content. It is not important which one it is, so long as I can do it quickly. ...

Just tested straight to spam today: Love emails but hate people? Don’t want someone 🤡 at your party 🥳 but have to invite them 🤢 cause your mom 💁‍♀️ made you? Trust Straight 2 Spam to send your v important email 📧 straight to their spam 🗑 Click the button below👇 to copy a nasty ❌ ooey ❌ gooey ❌ spam-keyword filled invisible message 🔤 for your email that you totally sent on time ⏰ but the 🐦 dodo-brain 🧠 won’t see it because they didn’t check their spam folder 📂 (Just make sure you’re not in the recipient’s address book 📇, or all bets are off 🙅‍♀️)...

EFF’s1 HTTPS Everywhere is a browser extension available for all major browsers that automatically upgrades HTTP to HTTPS on supported websites. ...

I try to avoid websites with paywalls. If I really like the website and it deserves my attention, I will throw in a monthly subscription for it. High-quality content deserves to be supported. The fragmentation isn’t always great and it’s often hard to keep track of multiple distinct news sources and portals / subscriptions, but that’s a topic for another day. Sometimes people will link to news articles or websites with paywalls from various sources (blogs, social media, other news articles, etc). I’d rather know in advance that those articles are paywalled, but that’s not always possible. After clicking them, curiosity already killed the cat. There are several ways to access those as one-offs. I will add a disclaimer that I do not publicly endorse any of those methods, they are just mentioned for educational purposes. ...

I keep forgetting these, so I wrote a small summary for my own reference. ...

This post contains a small handful of distinct services to query your machine external IP address. ...