Year: 2018
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Found GC69JG8 5L21 RIVERSIDE Charlies 5th Loop
This checkin to GC69JG8 5L21 RIVERSIDE Charlies 5th Loop reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Great cache container! I'm visiting the Open University to take an exam, this afternoon, and enjoyed the opportunity to find a handful of caches (both these, and the nearby series of virtuals from a different …
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Found GC674FF 5L7 ICT 1 Charlie's 5th Loop
This checkin to GC674FF 5L7 ICT 1 Charlie's 5th Loop reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A nice easy find; good camo! TFTC.
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Found GC674F4 5L6 45 Charlie's 5th Loop
This checkin to GC674F4 5L6 45 Charlie's 5th Loop reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. On campus for an exam but running a little early; had time to find this cache (hampered only slightly by the season...!).TFTC!
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Geohashing expedition 2018-10-16 52 -0
This checkin to geohash 2018-10-16 52 -0 reflects a geohashing expedition. See more of Dan's hash logs. Location
Alongside a lane that runs through the Quinton Green Business Park, South of the village of Quinton.
Participants
Dan Q
Plans
I've got an exam in Milton Keynes in the afternoon, so it'd … -
The peculiar history of the Ordnance Survey
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The history of the organisation known as OS is not merely that of a group of earnest blokes with a penchant for triangulation and an ever-present soundtrack of rustling cagoules.
From its roots in military strategy to its current incarnation as producer of the rambler's navigational aid, the government-owned company has been checking and rechecking all … -
The Ruby Story
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By 2005, Ruby had become more popular, but it was still not a mainstream programming language. That changed with the release of Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails was the “killer app” for Ruby, and it did more than any other project to popularize Ruby. After the release of Ruby on Rails, interest in Ruby … -
Matreon: The Patreon Platform for Emotional Labor
Dear Guy Who Can’t Read The Room:
Hello and thank you for attempting to engage in an unsolicited conversation with me! In order to ensure our interaction is productive and enriching for both parties, I invite you to join my Matreon. For just a few dollars a month, you can continue to approach me with whatever … -
Your RSS is grass: Mozilla euthanizes feed reader, Atom code in Firefox browser, claims it's old and unloved
When Firefox 64 arrives in December, support for RSS, the once celebrated content syndication scheme, and its sibling, Atom, will be missing.
"After considering the maintenance, performance and security costs of the feed preview and subscription features in Firefox, we’ve concluded that it is no longer sustainable to keep feed support in the core of the … -
An Unusual Workday
Not every day at Dan's work involves bear masks, augmented reality, podcasting, and hacking. But this one did.
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Learning BASIC Like It's 1983
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Now, it’s Saturday morning and you’re eager to try out what you’ve learned. One of the first things the manual teaches you how to do is change the colors on the display. You follow the instructions, pressing CTRL-9 to enter reverse type mode and then holding down the space bar to create long lines. You … -
"Stop Thinking About Consent: It Isn’t Possible and It Isn’t Right"
For a philosopher, Helen Nissenbaum is a surprisingly active participant in shaping how we collect, use, and protect personal data. Nissenbaum, who earned her PhD from Stanford, is a professor of information science at Cornell Tech, New York City, where she focuses on the intersection of politics, ethics, and values in technology and digital media …
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People don't change
Peter Gasston / Front End London (YouTube)
Fundamentally, people haven't changed much in tens of thousands of years. If ancient Egyptians had smartphones, you know full well that they'd have been posting cat pictures too. What can we learn from this and how should we look at our role when developing front-end Web experiences? -
The Rise and Demise of RSS
There are two stories here. The first is a story about a vision of the web’s future that never quite came to fruition. The second is a story about how a collaborative effort to improve a popular standard devolved into one of the most contentious forks in the history of open-source software development.
In the late … -
Review of Malmaison Oxford
This review of Malmaison Oxford originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. Malmaison Oxford, Oxford Castle, 3 New Rd, Oxford OX1 1AY, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Delightful, although expensive, hotel. Theming is spot-on: you can really see the architecture that once made this place a prison, while simultaneously chilling out in a …
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Review of Fairytale Farm
This review of Fairytale Farm originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. Fairytale Farm, Southcombe OX7 5QH, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ A bit weird, but if you're looking for an eccentric (but good value) outing with young children, it fits the bill. Very good disabled accessibility.