Year: 2018
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Review of Islip Village Shop
This review of Islip Village Shop originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. Islip Village Shop, Church Ln, Islip, Kidlington OX5 2TA, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Remarkably good prices and friendly staff. Often a selection of local produce as well as a wide variety of the usual convenience store essentials. Plenty of …
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Nutrition Cards for Accessible Components A11Y Expectations
A11Y Nutrition Cards is an attempt to digest and simplify the accessibility expectations when it comes to component authoring. Based on the WAI ARIA Authoring Practices Guide.
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The thing about ad-blocker popups
I’ve been, in the past, a firm distruster of ad blocking software. I still am, to a large extent. I don’t trust any company whose finance model is based on inserting exceptions for advertisers they like. But I installed Ghostery, whose model is to use the stats of what gets blocked to offer consultancy to …
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Salty JavaScript analogy
JavaScript is like salt. If you add just enough salt to a dish, it’ll help make the flavour awesome. Add too much though, and you’ll completely ruin it.
Similarly, if you add just enough JavaScript to your website, it’ll help make it awesome. Add too much though, and you’ll completely ruin it.
Andy Bell
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What's The Longest Word You Can Write With Seven-Segment Displays?
Tom Scott (YouTube)
From now on, when I try to engage junior programmers with the notion that they should make use of their general-purpose computers to answer questions for them... no matter how silly the question?... I'll show them this video. It's a moderately-concise explanation of the thought processes and programming practice … -
From the Collection: Blissymbolics
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Blissymbolics was conceived by Austro-Hungarian expatriate Charles K. Bliss (1897–1985), born Karl Kasiel Blitz to a Jewish family in the town of Czernowitz (now Chernivtsi in modern-day Ukraine). He was introduced to signs and symbols at an early age in the form of circuit diagrams – his father’s many occupations included mechanic and electrician – … -
Still Blogging in 2017
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On a blog, I can write about blogging and whimsically toss in self-indulgent pictures of May’s budding azaleas.
I can end my career, right here, in a flash. I can rant about the perfidy and corruption of my local governing party, who I devoutly hope are about to be turfed … -
Lingering
Invisible Bread
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20 Years Of Blogging
Come next week, Dan will have been blogging for 20 years. A lightweight retrospective.
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Reply to Hardware Issue - when did hard drive space get like this?
Hardware Issue (Aquarionics) So, I am a professional system administrator. It says it on my business cards and everything. Every couple of months, when I have to explain to the receptionist at the London office that yes, I do work here, and so Nicholas Avenell (Aquarionics) wrote:
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@adactio: The ampersand in https://adactio.com/notes/14395 isn't being properly escaped in your RSS feed...
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The Scrotum Is Nuts
Why are testicles kept in a vulnerable dangling sac? It’s not why you think.
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Some of you may be thinking that there is a simple answer: temperature. This arrangement evolved to keep them cool. I thought so, too, and assumed that a quick glimpse at the scientific literature would reveal the biological reasons and I’d move … -
Story: Trophy
Another monologue… This time from a suggestion of “Trophy”:
It’s weird, right? Stressing over something so small. I mean, it shouldn’t be that big a deal, but it is. It’s my trophy. I won it. I put in the hours and effort, I sacrificed for it, it’s mine.
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Digest for September 2018
Summary
This month's blog activity was mostly dominated by 360° photos taken with my new camera, e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. I also had to archive two geocaches, Oxford's Wild Wolf One and Two, as they'd been getting muggled/vandalised. I also shared a fabulous reinterpretation of Who's On First? for the post-post-modern society.
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