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Fox (Household NAS)
Dan builds Fox, a NAS and application server for his household, and shoots a timelapse video of the construction.
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Sandwichware: Machines Talking to Machines About Humans
How are we better, Dan wonders, at making conversational interfaces than interoperable standards? Why are we inventing sandwichware?
Subscribing to The Far Side (by RSS!)
The Far Side is back, and (for the first time) it has a website and daily comics. But no RSS…
Automattic Transition (days -50 to 78)
A nice round 256 days since he applied to Automattic, Dan reflects on the whirlwind that has been his first…
Evolving Computer Words: "Hacker"
Of all evolving computer words, "hacker" is perhaps the most-loaded and controversial. Dan explores how it's changed and whether it…
Evolving Computer Words: "GIF"
People think of GIFs as animations for the Web, but that's only a fraction of their story.
Evolving Computer Words: "Broadband"
Dan continues to examine words whose popular meaning have diverged from their technical definition; today, he looks at "broadband".
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Dan Q’s been blogging since the 1990s, mostly about his life, technology, programming, relationships, hacking, and games.
He lives in Oxford, UK with his partner and her husband in a polyamorous V-shaped thingy, and their two children. Until he finds something that rhymes better, he describes himself as a magician Automattician on a geoposition-mission.
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Recent notes, reposts, checkins, videos, and reviews
- How to explain academic publishing to a five year old
- Wheelbarrow Parkour!
- New browser on the block: Flow
- CSS4 is here!
- Reinventing Git interface
- I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter
- Parent-child play: It's constant and exhausting, but is there a better way?
- Running Code Over Time
- Which emoji scissors close?
- It's been said that you're not really part of a new #dev team until you break something user-facing. Today I achieved that milestone. Whoops.
- Popcorn
- Nice simple design, @typehut, but with no RSS, Atom, nor h-feed you've made a blog platform to which readers can only subscribe by email. 😢
- It's 2020 and you're in the future
- Fix your PC with a crystal pendulum
- The Legend of the Homicidal Fire-Proof Salamander
- This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web
- I ignored warnings from friends and family not to marry my husband
- Film : Star Wars IX : The Rise of Skywalker
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GC2VT9P
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GC1YHN9
(found it) - Handshake Lessons for Sarah
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TC4W8P
(found it) - When you're in the club and you're hungry... (Misheard Lyrics… Round Two!)
- Making It Boring
- Three Wishes
- TacoBot 3000 (Part 3 of the Raining Tacos saga)
- Men. Abuse. Trauma. | Philosophy Tube
- Geohashing expedition 2019-11-29 51 -1
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GC64QG0
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GC18GJB
(found it) -
GC7Q96B
(owner maintenance) - What's wrong with my password, @PostOffice? Is it too secure for you? It does nothing to fix your "old-fashioned" image that your password policy is still stuck in the 1990s. @PWTooStrong
- Review: Vintage Vibrators
- Third party
- 30 Years in the making | The All-New Renault CLIO
- That moment when you realise, to your immense surprise, that the research you've spent most of the year on might actually demonstrate the thing you set out to test after all. 😲 Screw you, null hypothesis.