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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.

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

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.

Download.com goes nuclear

Download.com hijacked my download to install some toolbar and so I'm leaving the site.

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.

I'm not afraid of Google

Google advertises Project Fi to a Project Fi subscriber signed into Chrome on a Pixel XL

CAPTCHA advertising

If you're going to make be solve a CAPTCHA please don't make it be advertising at the same time.

San Francisco from Twin Peaks

Downtown San Francisco, including Market Street to the ferry building, shot from Twin Peaks.

Using the Azure Monitor REST API from Google Apps Script

How to call the Azure Monitor REST API via OAuth from Google Apps Script. Worked example shows how to log average response time for an Azure App Service.