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FilterJoe
Personal blog · filterjoe.com · on HN as FilterJoehardwareculture
FilterJoe is a personal blog at filterjoe.com about hardware and culture. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “A Guide to Using Passwords Without Distraction”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments ask for feedback on a site-design post about readability (line height for web text) and mention password managers. None of them judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Long form blogging on youth baseball, AA batteries, board games, and other topics.
Most-linked posts?
- A Guide to Using Passwords Without Distraction2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-04-18
What Hacker News says?
The problem is using many open tabs with Chrome. If you use no more than 3 or 4 tabs, Chrome is generally fine. If you use more than that, Firefox has some built-in features to help with tabs such as delayed tab loading and tab grouping. It also has more and better extensions for helping with multiple tabs. Furthermore, it doesn't launch a new process for each tab. In a browser comparison I wrote last month, I inclu…
Comment linking /2015/01/23/best-browsers-2015-which-browser-is-best-for-you/
on “Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox”Submitted Want the quietest PC? Just get the right chip . . . as a story · 13 points
HN discussionI'd be curious for thoughts from HN readers on my own site's readability. Looking at: http://www.filterjoe.com/2009/03/23/site-design-for-reading/ I find the comments and list items (within an item) need more line height for comfortable web reading. Body paragraph line height seems fine.
Comment linking /2009/03/23/site-design-for-reading/
on “Webdesigners: please make text readable”Submitted A Guide to Using Passwords Without Distraction as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe author's focus on just 2 things, contrast and font, are not only overly simplistic, but are not even universally true for all people. For my eyes, reading high contrast black on white all day causes eye fatigue, while HN level of contrast (and the contrast on my site) causes less fatigue. I have no idea what percentage of people feel that way, but clearly some do. I am a huge proponent of designing web sites for…
Comment linking /2011/04/11/web-page-reformatting-services-readable-and-readability/
on “Webdesigners: please make text readable”Submitted High Tech Youth Baseball Bats: A Skeptic's Guide as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you ask a variety of people how readable they find a typical web site, you'll receive almost uniform responses that many (or most) pages are difficult to read. Font size is a factor but there are many more factors, which I outline here: http://www.filterjoe.com/2009/03/25/filters-for-reading-on-t... and suggest solutions for web design here: http://www.filterjoe.com/2009/03/23/site-design-for-reading/ A main them…
Comment linking /2011/02/26/the-best-monitor-setup-to-reduce-eye-fatigue-and-distraction/
on “16 pixels For Body Copy. Anything Less Is A Costly Mistake”Submitted Best AA Batteries That You Never Heard Of as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOn the consumer end - what needs to be done is a massive education campaign, kept reasonably simple. It was done in 2000-2003 for anti-virus and it (roughly) worked for the 80% or so of the Windows world that did what they were told (by the mainstream press). The mainstream press has (so far) done a terrible job on password education. You see long lists of rules that nobody but a security professional or hacker woul…
Comment linking /2011/04/14/passwords-guide-without-distraction/
on “LulzSec: Why we do what we do”Submitted Monitor Setup to Reduce Eye Fatigue and Distraction as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRegardless of the root causes for how passwords get hacked, having a unique and strong password for each account helps limit the damage for nearly all forms of password theft to just one account. The following post (mine) describes the 9 most common forms of password theft as well as protection and damage control for each: http://www.filterjoe.com/2010/05/14/how-attackers-steal-pass... You'll see that if you simply…
Comment linking /2010/05/14/how-attackers-steal-passwords/
on “A brief Sony password analysis”Submitted The Grinch Who Changed to the Twenty Sixteen WordPress Theme as a story · 1 points
HN discussionA Sophos survey found that 48% of users use "a few different passwords." http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200911/3184/Interne... I have interviewed a few people about their password strategies and quite a few seem to have a tiered password approach. But that is still an easy setup to exploit, as I explain here: http://www.filterjoe.com/2010/05/14/the-usual-way-to-manage-... Furthermore, I've noticed in my in…
Comment linking /2010/05/14/the-usual-way-to-manage-passwords/
on “A brief Sony password analysis”Submitted Netbook Dream Becomes Reality with Acer C720 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionComparison of the new versions of Readable and Readability, here: http://www.filterjoe.com/2011/04/11/web-page-reformatting-se... Hightlights: The new Readability takes 6-12 seconds to reformat a page, vs. less than 2 seconds for both the new readable and the old Readability. New Readability has more features, including Instapaper-like sharing for those who pay. It is possible to use the old Readability, for those w…
Comment linking /2011/04/11/web-page-reformatting-services-readable-and-readability/
on “Readable: A more readable version of "readability"”Submitted Blackberry vs. iPhone: No Longer a Contest as a story · 1 points
HN discussionChrome has been my primary browser for the last year and I have not noticed the majority of issues discussed in the post. Great eye for detail but I suspect most people won't notice most of these issues. I've found that Chrome easily beats Firefox and IE8 for the one thing most people care about most: Get right to work while the browser is not in your way. It's fast and uncluttered, and is more secure than the compe…
Comment linking /2011/03/15/best-browsers-2011-best-browser-for-you/
on “Google Chrome – Why I Hate It And Continue To Use It”Submitted Smartphones: The Most Pervasive Interruption Technology Ever as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI'm the person who wrote the comment on Troy's blog about the common 3 password approach, which I suppose inspired the title. What PC Magazine did not write was that I describe how hackers easily exploit it, here: http://www.filterjoe.com/2010/05/14/the-usual-way-to-manage-... It's part of a password series with the following central advice for typical home users: "Use a password manager to assign unique, random 15…
Comment linking /2011/04/14/passwords-guide-without-distraction/
on “You have exactly three passwords, don't you? ”Submitted How Attackers Steal Passwords as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe Great Suspender: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende... Combined with Session Buddy: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/session-buddy/edac... Those who routinely keep 10+ tabs open may be motivated to switch to Firefox or Opera due to slow browser start. The above 2 extensions solve the issue. I explain in more detail here: http://www.filterjoe.com/2015/01/23/best-browsers-2015-wh…
Comment linking /2015/01/23/best-browsers-2015-which-browser-is-best-for-you/
on “Ask HN: What are the most useful Chrome extensions?”The author asserts that "The first company—whether it’s an incumbent phone maker or Ph.D.-laden start-up in a garage—that figures out how to solve the smartphone battery problem will see enormous gains." Nope. Blackberry has had battery life nailed for years and they're steadily losing market share in the U.S. I owned a Blackberry 9700 for a couple years and recently replaced it with an iPhone 4s. When using for a s…
Comment linking /2011/12/23/blackberry-vs-iphone-4s-after-two-months-of-use/
on “It’s the battery, stupid: The looming 4G smartphone crisis”This post, while thought provoking, doesn't directly say what I think of as the main point: many modern electronic devices are loaded with "interruption technology," while books are not. For example, a smartphone can interrupt you with various types of alerts, or encourage you to interrupt yourself by checking up on emails, text messages, etc. In my own essay on this subject ( http://www.filterjoe.com/2011/05/06/s…
Comment linking /2011/05/06/smartphones-most-pervasive-interruption-technology/
on “In The Age of Distraction, We Need One Thing More Than Ever: Books”I'm the author of the password management series on FilterJoe. For those who feel uncomfortable with password managers, a passphrase system can work and that is included in the series: http://www.filterjoe.com/2010/12/06/a-base-phrase-approach-t... However, I suspect that very few people are willing and/or able to do this. Look at what people actually do, and how it fails: http://www.filterjoe.com/2010/05/14/the-usu…
Comment linking /2010/05/14/the-usual-way-to-manage-passwords/
on “A Guide to Using Passwords Without Distraction”I've always had an innate fear/discomfort of password managers. First, there's a definite single point of failure with the master password. And second, if the password manager fails for some reason, all of the passwords it contains are locked away. Password managers are great for some folks. Especially when paired with a USB security dongle or other secondary authentication. One of the author's other posts has some…
Comment linking /2010/05/14/which-password-manager/
on “A Guide to Using Passwords Without Distraction”