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Evolving Computer Words: "GIF"
People think of GIFs as animations for the Web, but that's only a fraction of their story.
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Evolving Computer Words: "Broadband"
Dan continues to examine words whose popular meaning have diverged from their technical definition; today, he looks at "broadband".
Evolving Computer Words: "Virus"
Of all the computer words that have diverged from their original meaning, "virus" has perhaps diverged the furthest. Dan explains…
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Dan celebrates his final day at the Bodleian with drinking, games, and rap music.
Time-Efficient Shuffling
Dan proposes a more complexity-efficient alternative to the Fisher-Yates shuffling algorithm. And it's silly.
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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
- 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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(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.
- Should accessibility features be optional?
- Who'd have thought that my onboarding fortnight at @WooCommerce / @Automattic would conclude with a very literal "on-boarding". Hang five! 🏄🏼♂️
- Well, Cape Town, you were a blast. But now it’s time to get back to my normal life for a bit. 🇿🇦✈️🇩🇪✈️🇬🇧
- Seconds after I took this "penguin selfie", a third penguin snuck up behind me and bit me on the arse. 🇿🇦🐧😧
- I now have no doubt that from the summit of Table Mountain is an absolutely unparalleled place from which to watch the sunset. 🇿🇦🌅😍
- Perfect By K Lynn Smith
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GC707WR
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(found it) - Making magic happen alongside my new @WooCommerce Team Alpha buds in sunny Cape Town. 🇿🇦
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(write note) - Off to Cape Town. Don't wait up! ✈️ 🇿🇦
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(found it) - Howdymattic Outtakes
- Howdymattic
- Mission Across Wales
- Reply to @ADumbGreyHam
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(archive) - Shredding eight years of old payslips
- Reply to: Indelible
- Text Rendering Hates You
- Using JSLint For Evil - YouTube
- Supply-Chain Security and Trust