Restricting Google App Script permissions

Google Apps Script is a rapid application development platform that makes it fast and easy to create business applications that integrate with Google Workspace. You write code in modern JavaScript and have access to built-in libraries for favorite Google Workspace applications like Gmail, Calendar, Drive, and more.

https://developers.google.com/apps-script/overview

Google Apps Script provide an easy way to automate repetitive tasks in the Google ecosystem (e.g. Drive). It is somewhat similar to macros in Microsoft Office. An App Script will ask for permissions before it can interact with any document of the user, and by default these permissions are unnecessarily wide. This write up is meant to help restricting these permissions.

Using LastPass on login forms with more than 2 inputs

LastPass generally handles common login pages with a username and password well, but it breaks on login forms that have more than those two fields. But there is a solution.

The problem

Here is the site I’ll use as an example: the login page of the SMBC bank: [https://direct.smbc.co.jp/aib/aibgsjsw5001.jsp]

The first line gives 2 options for identifying your user: either specify your bank account number (branch code and account number) or use your contractor number. I’m using the first one, so let’s focus on that. The problem is that the branch code and the account numbers are two separate text boxes, thus when I fill them out and login, then LastPass will only save one of them as username.

Getting a .jp domain

I have a super common family name in Hungary: Szabo. It means tailor, and appr. 2% of Hungarians have this family name (203,126 out of 9,730,000). Thus szabo.hu, szabo.eu, szabo.com, szabo.net, szabo.info, szabo.me, szabo.xyz etc. are mostly taken. However I recently checked and szabo.jp was available! Following a Tokyo Cheapo guide I found Star Domain and bought the domain there for 2560 yen/year. (Star Domain has a referral program, so if you use this link, I might earn a little money.)

I already had hosting elsewhere, so I only needed the domain and Star Domain has a pretty straightforward DNS configurator. I read that only people in Japan can register .jp domains, so I expected some verification, but only my phone number was checked and after I paid for the domain, I could use it immediately.

Most part of the site is text based, so Google Translate makes it possible to use it without knowing too much Japanese.

Times Car TCP test

I’ve been using Times Car Share for almost half a year now, and totally love it. I’ll write a separate post about it, but yesterday I took their online quiz for some extra TCP points. As I was googleing some of the questions, I found an older set of questions, so I decided to share the latest ones.

I still think that you should try to complete the quiz alone, as it is used to ensure you are aware of how to use the service properly, but if you failed or just want to double check some answers, here they are.

Revive this blog

After being rejected from ADDress, I abandonded this blog and focused on my blog in Hungarian. However a lot has changed recently, and I feel the need of a place to publish in English. Thus I decided to reuse this blog, but shift the focus from the original digital nomad life to more general life in Japan with occasional tech related articles. For this reason I also got a new domain name: szabo.jp. Szabo (read as サボー) being my family name.

Enjoy!