I know that there are more pressing issues in this world of poverty and famine, but I would still like to be able to use spacebar while reading medium.com. Hit the one key that I know scrolls down a page, the one that works in every other site I've visited as long as I can remember. I want to keep reading and punching the longest key in my keyboard with a cup of coffee on my other hand.

Medium.com seems to have a lot of interesting articles, but the competition of interesting things to read is fierce. Every little bit that nags works for the competition, and every time I need to scroll down my mind pops out of the article to curse the sites behavior.

I could rant how irresponsible and idiotic it is to break common conventions how pages behave in browsers, but I'm not going to ;) I just hope the message somehow gets through to the people responsible at medium.com. The email didn't seem to have an impact.

I used to feel the same.

Then I realized that hype is just that and fanboyism is just a lack of perspective. They don't affect me. The stories, however, occasionally contain little gems. Like this one; I became aware of SAGA :) I will definitely take a closer look at it later.

Mostly I just enjoy the fact that nothing coming out from Apple affects me and watch the whole show as a grand social experiment :)

I used to have the same problem. The solution is to use multiple profiles in firefox. My default profile is tightened with noscript and such. The other one I only use for payments.

To set up a new profile, use:
firefox -ProfileManager

And to launch your new "payments" profile:
firefox -P payments --no-remote

The --no-remote -part tells firefox not to just open a new tab with the possibly already running default profile firefox.

I can't get past the first "Mr Bond".

Poor guy, he must have difficulties with people taking him seriously. But at least he will likely to remembered by others... (and everyone knows his PIN also).

I should get some sleep.