Background
I was contacted this week by a geocacher called Dominik who, like me, loves geocaching.... but hates it when the coordinates for a cache are hidden behind a virtual jigsaw puzzle.

A popular online jigsaw tool used by lazy geocache owners is Jigidi: I've come up with several

geocaching, jigsaws, javascript, puzzles, hacking, debugging, published on gemini, programming

(Just want the instructions? Scroll down.)

A year and a half ago I came up with a technique for intercepting the "shuffle" operation on jigsaw website Jigidi, allowing players to force the pieces to appear in a consecutive "stack" for ludicrously easy solving. I did this partially because I was

geocaching, javascript, video, puzzles, hacking, debugging, published on gemini, programming

tl;dr? Just want instructions on how to solve Jigidi puzzles really fast with the help of your browser's dev tools? Skip to that bit.
I don't enjoy jigsaw puzzles
I enjoy geocaching. I don't enjoy jigsaw puzzles. So mystery caches that require you to solve an online jigsaw puzzle in order to get

debugging, hacking, geocaching, javascript, programming, puzzles

Earlier this week, I mentioned the exciting hackathon that produced a moderately-faithful reimagining of the world's first Web browser. I was sufficiently excited about it that I not only blogged here but I also posted about it to MetaFilter. Of course, the very first thing that everybody there history, hackathon, web, metafilter, geek, flags, debugging, programming, cern, technology, geeky, web browsers

If you're reading this post via my blog and using a desktop computer, try opening your browser's debug console (don't worry; I'll wait). If you don't know how, here's instructions for Firefox and instructions for Chrome. Other browsers may vary. You ought to see something like this in your debugging, javascript, programming, web browsers, geeky, css