Year: 2018
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Web! What is it good for?
https://adactio.com/journal/9016 (adactio.com) You can listen to an audio version of Web! What is it good for? I have a blind spot. It’s the web. I just can’t get excited about the prospect of building something for any particular operating system, be it desktop or mobile. I think about the potential lifespan of what would be …
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TFW a Twitter bot solves a video game mystery
TFW a Twitter bot solves a video game mystery | The Video Game History Foundation on Patreon (Patreon) Official Post from The Video Game History Foundation: Something pretty fun happened yesterday that I wanted to share with you all: a bot on Twitter accidentally provided the clue that finally solved a 28-year-old mystery about a …
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Review of Off The Hook (Kidlington)
This review of Off The Hook (Kidlington) originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. Off The Hook (Kidlington), 9 Oxford Rd, Kidlington OX5 2BP, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Karpathy's Basilisk
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An Oxford book store is cashing in on the success of The Good Place by selling the moral philosophy and ethics books Chidi references in the series.
An Oxford book store is celebrating the success of The Good Place by selling the moral philosophy and ethics books referenced by Chidi Anagonye (William Jackson Harper) in the series – and its efforts are going viral.
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GDPR and Google Analytics
GDPR and Google Analytics (adactio.com) Do you have permission for those third-party scripts? Enforcement of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation is coming very, very soon. Look busy. This regulation is not limited to companies based in the EU—it applies to any service anywhere in the world that can be used by citizens of the EU.
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My Blog Now Has a Content Security Policy - Here's How I've Done It
My Blog Now Has a Content Security Policy - Here's How I've Done It (Troy Hunt) I've long been a proponent of Content Security Policies (CSPs). I've used them to fix mixed content warnings on this blog after Disqus made a little mistake, you'll see one adorning Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) and I even …
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Bypassing WordPress / Jetpack's "Prove your humanity:" CAPTCHA
Popular WordPress plugin Jetpack provides a CAPTCHA whose sole purpose seems to be to frustrate humans. It does nothing to stop bots, as Dan demonstrates with a browser plugin that circumvents it.
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Improving URLs for AMP pages
Improving URLs for AMP pages (Accelerated Mobile Pages Project) TL;DR: We are making changes to how AMP works in platforms such as Google Search that will enable linked pages to appear under publishers’ URLs instead of the google.com/amp URL space while maintai… TL;DR: We are making changes to how AMP works in platforms such as …
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Review of Fairlawns Hotel and Spa
This review of Fairlawns Hotel and Spa originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. Fairlawns Hotel and Spa, 178 Little Aston Rd, Walsall WS9 0NU, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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The elephant in the diversity room
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Although there’s a lot of heated discussion around diversity, I feel many of us ignore the elephant in the web development diversity room. We tend to forget about users of older or non-standard devices and browsers, instead focusing on people with modern browsers, which … -
Women speakers and attendees at Amsterdam web conferences
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As a slight contribution to the diversity in web development discussion, here are the ratios of female attendees and speakers from the Amsterdam web conferences Krijn and I organised or are close to. I’m not sure what these numbers mean, but someone … -
BBC - Travel - Welcome to Monowi, Nebraska: population 1
Welcome to Monowi, Nebraska: population 1 (bbc.com) Eighty-four-year-old Elsie Eiler pays taxes to herself, grants her own alcohol licence and is the only remaining resident in Monowi, Nebraska.
Eighty-four-year-old Elsie Eiler pays taxes to herself, grants her own alcohol licence and is the only remaining resident in Monowi, Nebraska...
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Nigel, the world's loneliest bird, dies next to the concrete decoy he loved
Nigel, the world's loneliest bird, dies next to the concrete decoy he loved (Washington Post) The gannet heeded conservationists' calls to settle on a small New Zealand island. Unfortunately, no eligible ladies did.
Nigel, a handsome gannet bird who lived on a desolate island off the coast of New Zealand, died suddenly this week. Wherever his … -
The Amazing Dinosaur Found (Accidentally) by Miners in Canada
This Is the Best Dinosaur Fossil of Its Kind Ever Found (Magazine) The 110 million-year-old fossil of a nodosaur preserves the animal’s armor, skin, and what may have been its final meal.
On the afternoon of March 21, 2011, a heavy-equipment operator named Shawn Funk was carving his way through the earth, unaware that he …