Tales from blocklist maintenance
summary
Maintains a blocklist since 1987 and claims it as the 1987 oldest blocklist, now included in uBlock Origin so inclusion exposes maintenance to massive user mail. Walks through real incidents: angry one-line demands, garbled bug reports, tracker delist requests parked in a separate folder, and an 85-year-old reproducible bug report whose screenshots letwhitelist a domain and fix an access problem. Uses standard browsers, adblockers, screenshots and email; responds to almost every inquiry and documents what actually worked.
AI-written summary · about
chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction by host
- 0:44Who is Peter Lowe
- 1:46Why people email maintainers
- 3:10Email from JM
- 5:37Email from Victoria
- 9:31Angry email from Robin
- 10:15Email from Carol
- 14:27Email from Damon
- 14:48Closing remarks
- 15:08Q&A with Andre
related talks
18mDesigning an open-source project for low maintenance
01h 44mFirefox Bug Rodeo!
38mLearning from your bugs
36mWeird Hidden Things on a Website That People Don't Check
42m8 Unbelievable Things You Never Knew About Tracking
12mWhimsy: Put That Test Down! You don't know where it's been
42mBugs We Love
39mUnblocking Backlog Jams