Reddit currently shows 5 types of posts on the home page: Posts from Subreddits that you’ve joined. “Because you’ve visited this community before” “Because you’ve shown interest in a similar community” “Popular on Reddit right now” “Suggested for you” This first one is self-explanatory and makes sense. Type 2 and 3 also makes sense as…← continue reading →
YouTube Tip – Make Big Thumbnails Smaller
YouTube has recently made the video thumbnails very large on both the Home page and the Subscriptions page. Now they only show 3 videos per row. It’s hard enough to find something good to watch, now you have to scroll a lot too just to find something new or interesting. I prefer a column of…← continue reading →
Review: Xiaomi Redmi Note 13 – A Good Phone?
My old phone, a Xiaomi Redmi Note 5, finally died. I was on the road cycling and using it for the GPS. It was working fine until I tried to use the camera. It suddenly turned off and won’t boot up. Apparently, using the camera is a power intensive operation which has revealed that my…← continue reading →
Bad Password Limits – Paypal, Online Shopping
I recently got into password managers, hoping to improve my online privacy and security. What I’ve learned is that when it comes to creating good passwords, length is the foremost attribute to improve. The longer the password is, the better. Second is the amount of character sets used. For example, does the password only use…← continue reading →
Remove New Tab Logo Latest Firefox Update
Updated to the new Firefox version 136 and didn’t like the logo on the New Tab area aka Firefox Home? Remove it with the steps below. It will also make the New Tab bookmark shortcuts bigger like before which in my opinion is much more visually pleasant. Type about:config on the address bar then input:…← continue reading →
Cloudflare Speed Test Fail Fix
Cloudflare has a feature to test your website’s speed giving you a score up to 100. Go to Cloudflare -> Website -> Speed -> Observatory Enter your website URL then click Run Test Once You may get a error like I did indicating that the test has failed. The image below shows that Cloudflare, with…← continue reading →
Cloudflare Rule Not Blocking Country
It seems Cloudflare sometimes fail to block IPs from a country that is included in a WAF rule. I have this in a rule I named “Wide Block” which blocks matching visitors: This translates to: Block all visitors from China, Hong Kong and Russia unless their IP belongs to Google (ASN 15169). A lot of…← continue reading →
Picture – Potted Meyer Lemon Fruit
This is the only fruit I ever got from my potted Meyer lemon before it died. I’ve been growing it in a container for 4 years but it was always sick with Citrus Gummosis where it develops an amber-colored sap that hardens, destroying the bark. It has cycled through a phase of deterioration and then…← continue reading →
