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Lichfield
Dan, Ruth, JTA and the kids go to Lichfield and it's great, perhaps mostly because they never get to go…
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Higher/Lower Datepicker
Can Dan make an even-worse "date of birth" field than those spinner ones?
Goose-Related Etymologies
Geese seem to work their way all over our language. Dan looks at the etymology of some goosey terminology.
Parcel Delivery Scammers Could Try Harder
Dan dissects SMS parcel fraud scams and suggests four ways in which tomorrow's fraudsters might be smarter and more-dangerous than…
Creed Cult-ure
Automatticians seem to really believe in their creed. Is Dan's employer a cult? Let's try to work it out...
Getting Twitter Avatars (without the Twitter API)
Twitter's API sucks so hard that Dan resorts to screen-scraping for avatar images rather than bothering to use it "properly".
Ireland and the UK Aren't In The Same Timezone!
Dan is surprised to find that Ireland isn't actually in the same timezone as the UK, and looks into how…
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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
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(found it) - I made a graph to show how the number of large hand tools stored in our garage has changed this last year but I forgot to label the axes.
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(temporarily disable listing) - Geohashing expedition 2021-06-26 51 -1
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(write note) - Ahead of schedule on work project. Invited to 2nd COVID jab next week. Spent half of day working on laptop in sunny garden. Parcel arrived from @LEGO_group with Everyone Is Awesome model (pictured). Today was a Good Day.
- Just learned Tuca & Bertie is getting a 2nd season (thanks Adult Swim, no thanks Netflix). Super excited. In anticipation I’m rewatching season 1 of this sort-of “upbeat feminist Bojack Horseman” and (re)loving it.
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- Hey @LloydsBank! 2009 called and asked if you're done sending your customers links to unencrypted HTTP endpoints yet. How do you feel about switching this to a HTTPS link rather than relying on an interceptable/injectable HTTP request?
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