Even though I have uninstalled Flash and checked all the appropriate settings in Chrome, CNN still seems to be able to get its videos to start playing whether I want them to or not (I don’t). And because of this, I decided I’d like to give building a Chrome extension a try in order to stop those videos from autoplaying.

With an upcoming version of Firefox set to warn users when they’re browsing on a site without SSL encryption enabled, I figured it wouldn’t hurt to get it all set up for this domain - kindofblue.com - as an experiment. I knew that with Let’s Encrypt, the SSL certificates are free. It just requires a bit of work to get them set up.

When Lists of Bests launched in 2003 (see previous post), the site consisted of a few Perl scripts and maybe an external CSS file. I don’t think I used a bit of JavaScript on the site at all, and my design skills were less than competant.

I have a crazy idea. It may even be a bad idea.

Today I picked up Charles Stross’ 2004 book The Atrocity Archives from the library. So far, I’ve only read the introduction, but I really think I’m going to like this book. Here’s a small bit from Ken McLeod’s intro: