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Dan shares some of his favourite stories from the world of natural language artificial intelligence.
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Firefox Daylight Makes Me Sad
Firefox Daylight broke Dan's mobile web browsing experience badly enough that he switched to Fennec F-Droid.
Loading CSS Asynchronously Without JS Dependency
Dan proposes a new technique for lazy-loading CSS which doesn't break style for non-JS users.
Building a Playframe (Timelapse Video)
Dan builds play equipment for the kids and shares a timelapse video of the process.
Syncthing
This month, Dan's in love with Syncthing, software that keeps his household's data where it needs to be.
Santander to Accept Homemade Deeds Poll
Santander are one of two banks who've been a thorn in Dan's side since he started helping people to change…
Rebuilding a Windows box with Chocolatey
As often happens when he moves house, Dan broke a PC. But thanks to package manager Chocolatey, he was able…
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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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