To create a new filter:

1. Open the µBlock dashboard by clicking the µBlock icon, then the header text that says ‘µBlock ’.

• Click ‘My filters’
• Add:

  www.facebook.com###pagelet_trending_tags_and_topics
  

• Apply Changes.

If you use Facebook, you’ve probably seen entries like this in your news feed.

They seem to just be popular posts from pages that your friends ‘like’. I find them to generally be irrelevant, so I made a user script to hide them.

It was an interesting opportunity to poke around the Facebook frontend JavaScript code. I also tried out MutationObservers and built my knowledge of XPath, which is very powerful.

Code is in the Hide_Facebook_Like_News.user.js Gist, which also explains how to use it:

passletters is a tiny command line utility to read a password from stdin and echo it with letters enumerated (for entry into web prompts that demand random, individual letters). The terminal scrollback is cleared afterwards.

sudo pip install passletters

NB: sudo may be needed to install the passletters script somewhere in your PATH.

https://github.com/inversion/passletters

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/passletters

Buzzword Ipsum is a businesslike lipsum generator that I have been developing for a bit of fun with a friend. The USP is that it attempts to form coherent sentences rather than just returning a bunch of random words tacked together. However, the content may preclude any efforts towards making the sentences make sense.

buzzword-ipsum on GitHub

Fezzle is a new site I’ve created which is based around playlists of the most popular songs for artists playing at festivals. It’s a way to discover who the other bands are at a festival you’re (potentially) going to. It is borne of frustration from looking at line-ups and searching by hand on YouTube or Spotify, and is essentially a quicker way to do that without a lot of copy and pasting or alt-tabbing.

Current development status:

• Tested on major desktop browsers as well as iOS simulators for iPhone and iPad
• Festival list is rather UK-centric.

Planned features – Lots! But firstly:

• Get more festivals included, especially those not in the UK.
• More information displayed about festivals and artists (country, bio, etc.)
• Some way to export or note what you liked – especially integration of favourites into the excellent Clashfinder.