30 June, 2018

Digest for June 2018

Summary

This month I attended The Lead Developer conference and used my lunch break (and my journey back to the station) to find a reasonable number of central London geocaches, as listed below. I also reshared an announcement by Garrett Coakley that IndieWeb Oxford was to go ahead in September.

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Checkins

Reposts

Reposts marked with a dagger (†) include my comments or interpretation.

Lateral: Game 1 with Kat Arney, Helen Arney, Simon Clark, and Sally Le Page

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https://youtu.be/_xS-BIcu4ew (youtu.be)

Tom Scott (YouTube)

Tom Scott’s new YouTube game show, Lateral, has just finished it’s first series. Start watching from here, if you’re at all interested… and you should be, it’s funny and clever (albeit in a very different way to Citation Needed).

Unbreakable smart lock devastated to discover screwdrivers exist

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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/15/taplock_broken_screwdriver/ (theregister.co.uk)

It’s never easy to crack into a market with an innovative new product but makers of the “world’s first smart fingerprint padlock” have made one critical error: they forgot about the existence of screwdrivers.

Tapplock raised $320,000 in 2016 for their product that would allow you to use just your finger to open the “unbreakable” lock. Amazing. Things took a turn for the worse when the ship date of September came and went, and backers complained that the upstart has stopped posting any updates and wasn’t responding to emails nor social media posts.

But after months of silence, the startup assured El Reg that everything was still moving forward and the delays were due to “issues with manufacturing in China.”

Fast forward 18 months and finally – finally – the $100 Tapplock is out on the market and it is… well, how do we put this kindly? Somewhat flawed.

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Kieren McCarthy (The Register)

REPORT: Cards Against Humanity officially surpasses acoustic guitars as the most annoying thing you can bring to a party – The Beaverton

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https://www.thebeaverton.com/2018/06/report-cards-against-humanity-officially-surpasses-acoustic-guitars-as-the-most-annoying-thing-you-can-bring-to-a-party/ (thebeaverton.com)

VICTORIA, BC – After data collection from thousands of parties across the country, reports are coming in that the annoying person who brings an acoustic guitar to a party is now officially less hated than the person who expects everyone to sit down and play Cards Against Humanity.

“At least when some asshole starts playing the tune to Wonderwall you can get up and go to a different room,” says Michelle Kalleta, 22, avid partygoer. “Jerks who show up with any sort of card game expect everyone to play, and the last thing I want to do at a party is sit in a circle with a bunch of people who think they’re hilariously edgy.”

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Filipe Dimas (The Beaverton)