What Is This Blog For?

When I made this blog back in April of 2022, I just used it for random rants, and that is still what I intend to use it for. However, posting on it was a pain as the old one used Docsify. Wasn't a problem with Docsify though, as the name implies, its for documentation, not blogs. You can see the old implementation here. At one point I even talked about switching to Ghost in a post, and decided not to. Later down the line, on the 27^th of October 2023, I decided to switch to Ghost. No regrets.

Regardless, my intent with this blog can be broken down into 3 main purposes:

1. Rants
2. Search engine optimized short posts (more explanation below)
3. Things I found interesting enough to talk about

I'd like to immediately address the second item of the SEO posts. I write some posts with the intent of them showing up when you search something. As an example, take following article:

Disable AdBlock Plus first run popup using suppress_first_run_page

This is pretty quick and easy. { “supress_first_run_page”: { “Value”: true } } Spaces, newlines, and tabs do not matter. Capitalization does. More details on this process are here, and how to get to extension settings is here Why this exists? No documentation on disabling AdBlock Plus’ first run page exists.

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This is obviously pushes on the keywords you might search trying to figure out this problem.

Why I did this? I couldn't find any reasonable results when I was trying to figure this out. So I went ahead and fixed that.

I also made a longer format blog post about it, without the SEO optimizations to boost it to the top of search. However, I made them separate so the SEO optimized one will be straight to the point with extra details linking to official support articles, which is how I like my answers.

This is the other article I made addressing this point, without the SEO optimizations, so I put some more content or "fluff" in it knowing someone probably isn't gonna be skimming this for an answer.

The Annoyances of First Run Pages on Extensions

Some extensions can justify it, but not many. In my school district, we force deploy Adblock Plus to all student and staff devices. We do this because many ads in this day and age can be downright malicious to end users. In addition, they can impede the usage of sites.

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As for rants, at the time of writing, the Optane rant is probably my favorite.

The Pains of Optane

This is not a guide on how to recover data from Optane, I was never able to figure it out. Now don’t get me wrong, Optane seems pretty cool - coming from the video Intel gives about it. My laptop came with it installed, and I had no issues with

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And for the last category, its kinda just a catch all.

But that's about it!