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Automattic Lockdown (days 79 to 206)
In another 128-day-interval update, Dan looks back on months two through six working for Automattic.
Mackerelmedia Fish
Dan reviews Mackerelmedia Fish, a surreal game by Nathalie Lawhead, and recommends that you give it a go.
Digital Climate Strike's Carbon Footprint
Dan criticises a website promoting a "Digital Climate Strike" as being among the world's worst websites from the perspective of…
Understanding Them (Pronouns)
After many years, Dan has a change of heart and decides that the singular "them" isn't all that, and maybe…
The 7 Types Of StackOverflow Answers
StackOverflow's a great resource, but it's also a terrible one. Dan explores the seven types of answers you'll get to…
Gratitude
Dan is grateful for a great many things, despite the current crisis.
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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
- Celebrate Seventeen
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- A new Automattician who started this week looked me up to thank me for the first in my series of blog posts about starting with @automattic. I feel useful! 😍
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- I think our local red kites were mostly living on roadkill, and the lockdown means they're not getting fed. They've also forgotten how to hunt: this afternoon I watched one get its ass handed to it by a medium-sized crow.
- Thursday
- The next time we want to import a horse to Russia it will be a doddle
- Visitors, Developers, or Machines
- The Board Game Remix Kit
- Pass The Pepper: Social Distancing is Nothing to Sneeze At
- Fox In Sox
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- Getting Hired at Automattic
- Dungeon Drawers
- For the benefit of my South African colleagues on Slack, I give you the #maskchallenge #emoji.
- Happy Birthday, You're Fired
- How to not make a résumé in React
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- Third-party libraries and security issues
- The first lines of 10 classic novels, rewritten for social distancing
- Dan receives a second letter from the Prime Minister, and fully backs the government's bold new strategy.
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- Some People
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