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Echo Show Me The Door
Why I'll never buy an Echo Show again, and what Amazon could have done differently to make Alexa with a screen useful.
Stamp out B2B spam with an evil calendar
A modest proposal for a service to randomly connect salespeople together on useless video calls to raise the cost of spraying us with endless spam.
Subscription Economics
The Economist is offering a free cell phone charger on Facebook, I have a better idea to boost circulation.
Enable GZIP compression for Amazon S3 hosted website in CloudFront
How to configure Amazon CloudFront to apply gzip compression for websites hosted using Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
Nonfiction
According to the New York Times Nonfiction Bestsellers list on Kindle Stephen King and Margaret Atwood are no longer fiction...
3D Printing a discreet wall mount shelf for the Aura Carver Mat
STL and OpenSCAD for a wall mounting bracket for the Aura Carver Mat 10 inch Digital Photo Frame
Cloud
Photo of clouds spelling cloud (actually a cunning crop of a sky writing advert).
Using the Todoist API to set a due date on the Alexa integration to-do list (with Apps Script)
Script to fix an annoyance with the Todoist Alexa integration where tasks are added without a due date leading them to be overlooked. Requires Google Drive and Todoist.
Google Photos killed my Aura Frame
Google is changing their Photos API so my Aura frame is ewaste. Thoughts on using and backing up digital photos.
Server Migration Complete
ITCHWY has migrated to a beefer box and a new OS and still seems to be working. Oh, and search is faster!