Month: May 2019
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Found GC6102Y Minecrafty 3 - Zombie
Found via quick diversion from my expedition to the 2019-05-27 51 -1 geohashpoint.
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Geohashing expedition 2019-05-27 51 -1
Dan takes a break from studying to cycle out to a hashpoint in South East Oxford.
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Caverna Do Dragão
Remember that 80s TV show Dungeons & Dragons? It turns out that Renault's target customer base in Brazil do, too.
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The man who made Einstein world-famous
A fascinating BBC News story about how astronomer Arthur Stanley Eddington helped the world "discover" the genius of Albert Einstein.
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I Don't Watch YouTube (Like You Watch YouTube)
A recent YouTube video by Veritasium helped Dan understand some of the quirks of YouTube's algorithms. Why hadn't he understood them before? Because he uses YouTube in an unusual way...
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Going Critical
A fabulous and interactive exploration of network interactions. Treat as a longread (with some opportunities to play as you go along).
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Danny Daycare
This isn't how I behave when I'm out cycling with one of our little 'uns in tow. But sometimes, just sometimes, when I see a solid-looking jump...
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Cat Salesman (Sioux Falls Area Humane Society)
Our cats are ready to walk off the lot. Adopt! Adopt! Adopt!
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Accessibility Resources
Beverley Newing shares their hotlist of their favourite accessibility resources.
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Blowout
I spent a delightful couple-of-seconds between reading and "getting" this comic.
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JavaScript and the mobile-only user
Chris Ferdinandi provides further arguments about why Javascript must be considered a progressive enhancement.
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Review of The Rusty Bicycle
This review of The Rusty Bicycle originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. The Rusty Bicycle, 28 Magdalen Rd, Oxford OX4 1RB, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ Visited today for the first time. Discovered when I came to order that special offers (e.g. £5 lunchtime pizzas) on the menu aren't actually honoured when …
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Permission to Write Stuff
Brendan Dawes grants bloggers permission to write... whatever they like: perhaps necessary in an age in which it can feel like you have to have a REASON to be a blogger (hint: you don't).
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The Side Effects of Vaccines - How High is the Risk?
Kurzgesagt tells it like it is, with a fun clickbaity title to try to ensure that antivaxxers are more-likely to see this video than they might otherwise have.
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css-only-chat/README.md at master · kkuchta/css-only-chat · GitHub
Of all the things I've seen hacked-together with just HTML and CSS on the client-side, I never thought I'd I'd see a "push"-capable live chat app...