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Dissertation Hand-In Déjà Vu
Dan hands in his dissertation and reflects on how the experience of writing it was different to the one he…
Geohashing Ressurected
Dan resurrects the "official" Geohashing website (as if he didn't have enough to do) with a little help from the…
Fox (Household NAS)
Dan builds Fox, a NAS and application server for his household, and shoots a timelapse video of the construction.
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…
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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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- The Great Flamingo Uprising
- This equation will change how you see the world
- Building the most inaccessible site possible with a perfect Lighthouse score
- Planning to attend IndieWebCamp London 2020
- Where's My Elephant?
- 180 Tips for Remote Working
- Spoiled by the Web
- 'There's zero evidence that it's worse for children'
- What are blogs?
- Chlorination Chicken
- HTML attributes to improve your two factor experience
- City Roads
- Going for a roll on a lake in Maine
- Joe's First Computer Encounter
- What's the harm in reading?
- Maps that Talk
- 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
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