Month: June 2017
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Digest for June 2017
Summary
This month I talked about a roleplaying campaign that I'd been running, found a geocache near our holiday accomodation, and shared research on user testing, subpixel rendering in CSS, and one of the first of what would ultimately turn out to be several plans Theresa May came up with by which to attempt to … -
Found GLR9ZJ3Z T'drath #4
This checkin to GLR9ZJ3Z T'drath #4 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A gentle walk yesterday evening brought us here (although we briefly overshot, engaged as we were deep in conversation and having forgotten to enable the proximity beeper on my GPSr). Spent a little time hunting in a convincing-looking …
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Found GLR9ZHJJ T'drath #5
This checkin to GLR9ZHJJ T'drath #5 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Our second holiday in Newport and a chance to hunt for a handful of the caches we'd missed last time around. A short walk by my partner fleeblewidget and I yesterday evening brought us to an easy find …
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How to find a wonderful idea
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
His nuclear research helped a judge determine that former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko had been assassinated – likely on Putin’s orders. Just months after the verdict, the scientist himself was found stabbed to death with two knives. Police deemed it a suicide, but US intelligence officials suspect it was murder...
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Found GLR8Y7C0 Road to Parrog
This checkin to GLR8Y7C0 Road to Parrog reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. An easy find while taking my nephew out for a morning walk in his pushchair. Poor little fella fell asleep before we got to the GZ, though, knocked out perhaps by this morning's early heat! Nice and …
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You will gain 50 Windows XP
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Found GLR8CM1D The Lone Singer
This checkin to GLR8CM1D The Lone Singer reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A quick and easy find on a walk to the shops while visiting my partner's husband's grandmother (who lives just around the corner)! Lovely day for it!
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Sub-Pixel Problems in CSS
Something that jumped at me, recently, was a rendering dilemma that browsers have to encounter, and gracefully handle, on a day-by-day basis with little, to no, standardization.
Take the following page for example. You have 4 floated divs, each with a width of 25%, contained within a parent div of width 50px. Here’s the question: How … -
Why You Only Need to Test with 5 Users
Some people think that usability is very costly and complex and that user tests should be reserved for the rare web design project with a huge budget and a lavish time schedule. Not true. Elaborate usability tests are a waste of resources. The best results come from testing no more than 5 users and running …
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You Are Not Google Bradfield
Software engineers go crazy for the most ridiculous things. We like to think that we’re hyper-rational, but when we have to choose a technology, we end up in a kind of frenzy — bouncing from one person’s Hacker News comment to another’s blog post until, in a stupor, we float helplessly toward the brightest light and … -
Trump Vs. Macron - Songify the News 15
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Theresa May to launch wide-ranging internet regulation and security changes despite not winning majority
Theresa May looks set to launch wide-ranging internet regulation and plans to fundamentally change how technology works despite not having won a majority.
In the speech in which she committed to keep governing despite calls to stand down, the prime minister made reference to extending powers for the security services. Those powers – which include regulation … -
Stones Under Yetzin
Dan's been running a roleplaying campaign for a few friends, and now that campaign's got it's own blog (not to mention a suite of companion apps, because... well, it's Dan).