Terry Jones

Archive for December, 2012

A chrome extension for examining tab events and ids

Wednesday, December 19th, 2012 Posted under browser extensions, programming. | Comments Off on A chrome extension for examining tab events and ids

Yesterday I was on a call with a friend who told me that when he enters a URL into an existing Chrome tab, the tab id changes. He asked if ... Read more..

Omit needless parens

Tuesday, December 18th, 2012 Posted under programming, python. | 9 Comments »

The famous 17th commandment in The Elements of Style is "Omit needless words". There should be an equivalent in programming, but for parentheses. Every time I see needless parens in ... Read more..

Destructive, invasive, and dangerous behavior by UK ISP TalkTalk (aka StalkStalk)

Wednesday, December 5th, 2012 Posted under companies, tech. | 6 Comments »

Today I spent several hours trying to figure out what was going wrong with a web service I've been building. The service uses websockets to let browsers and the server ... Read more..

Max Tabs

Tuesday, December 4th, 2012 Posted under browser extensions, tech. | 1 Comment »

Here's the second of several Chrome and Chromium browser extensions I've recently written. Earlier, I posted some of the background motivation in Alternate browsing realities. After installing Max Tabs, your ... Read more..

Open It Later

Tuesday, December 4th, 2012 Posted under browser extensions, tech. | Comments Off on Open It Later

Here's the first of several Chrome and Chromium browser extensions I've recently written. Earlier, I posted some of the background motivation in Alternate browsing realities. After installing Open It Later, ... Read more..

Alternate browsing realities

Tuesday, December 4th, 2012 Posted under browser extensions, tech. | 2 Comments »

I find it interesting to look for things we take for granted, and to ask what the world would look like if the basic assumptions were outlandishly violated. Recently I've been ... Read more..