Rants on ngmarley.com

Where Apple Went Wrong...

Tue, 01 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000

People don’t give a shit about things like a “Touch Bar” with emojis and the ability to pay for stuff via ApplePay. People don’t care about ApplePay, or about “eliminating cash”. And, although governments want to eliminate cash for other reasons, Apple is not the entity which is going to do so.

You know what people want?

Good hardware and software that works well.

Honestly, I don’t even think anybody cares whether their laptop is 0.005 inches thinner or 4 ounces lighter, but the ability to have 32 or 64 GB RAM is fucking huge. HUGE, I say.

What is Docker? (And good luck finding out.)

Thu, 16 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Here’s an example of how technical people still can’t explain things:

I search for “What is Docker”, and I even get to the “What is Docker?” page on the official website:

But as you can see, I still don’t get a straight answer.

This page tells me what Docker allows me to do … and what Docker containers are… (but I still need to know what Docker is first).

WordPress 4.4+ — How to Fix the Disappearing Admin Panel in the Post Editor

Sun, 03 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Well, the geniuses behind WordPress did it again. Enabled a change that Automattic thinks is the latest thing since sliced bread, and forced it upon the entire rest of the WordPress world.

This time, it’s in the form of a disappearing admin panel when you write posts. Apparently everything else is a “distraction”, and when writing, the only thing you should see is your little text box and nothing else. Well, fuck that. It’s annoying, and most of all, distracting! The distraction-free feature is actually distracting the hell out of me and I just want to write my post with a standard static screen with all my buttons and checkboxes that I’m used to.

Open Financial eXchange (OFX) is Broken (Online Banking Security is a Joke)

Thu, 05 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Am I the only person in the world who thinks that it’s utterly ludicrous that we have to give our passwords to sites like Mint.com so they can help us keep track of our spending habits? Surely I can’t be the only one. It’s like giving away the keys to the kingdom.

It kind of irks me a little that if I want to use a site like Mint.com to track my spending habits and help me keep my budget in line, I have to give my username and password over to them.

Facebook account deletion link

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

In case anyone is looking for it:

https://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account

This is the official Facebook delete account link. You can permanently delete your account by visiting this & entering your password & a (Re-)Capcha.

Be aware that it will be gone forever – this doesn’t just de-activate it. For now, there is still a 14-day grace period, so if you log back in within 14 days, the account deletion request will be cancelled.

Why you should NOT use short tags in PHP

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Where’s My Damn Emulator?

So I was trying to find a good SNES emulator for Mac. I read somewhere that Snes9x works for OSX, so I went to the site and then the downloads page to find one to… well, to download. The page started out “Here is a list of all the known available mirrors for Snes9x…”, but then it was an empty list.

I thought of two possibilities. Either the list contains exactly zero available mirrors, or something is wrong with the page. It struck me as rather odd that the site would put up an empty list of download mirrors for its own product, so I did some investigative research to check out possibility #2.

Greasemonkey script to remove ‘Who to follow’ box on twitter.

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Note: It’s now April 2015. This is really old & probably won’t work anymore. But I don’t like removing old content, so I’ll keep this post up anyway

Here’s a Greasemonkey script to remove the “Who to follow” (aka “recommended users”) box on twitter.com.

It’s annoying as hell and way too facebookish.`// ==UserScript==

// @name No Recommended Twitter Users // @namespace https://ngmarley.com/

// @description Remove ‘who-to-follow’ box on twitter.com.

// @include http://twitter.com/* // ==/UserScript== function disable() { location.href=“javascript:(function(){ $(’#recommended_users’).remove(); })()”;