Web

Extracting a web page’s title with command-line tools and the pup HTML parser instead of relying on an external title service.

More outages at Pinboard. It was time to find an open-source self-hosted alternative. Espial, it turns out, works great.

A brief appreciation of Georgia as a readable Cyrillic typeface for a non-native Russian reader.

An observation that Fox News rejected Tor Browser requests while the New York Times remained accessible.

Using the Lynx command-line browser on macOS to read text without the clutter and ad-block detection encountered in graphical browsers.

Using a Chrome extension to choose whether links that request a new tab open in the current tab instead.

A scheduled Python and AppleScript workflow that checks websites and sends Messages notifications when a site has problems.

Hiding YouTube comments with a custom AdBlock Plus filter that blocks the comments section of video pages.