Month: June 2019
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In the remote chance that @Facebook's #LibraCoin takes off, I suggest that the appropriate slang term for the currency shall be zucks. As in: "I'll bet you a hundred zucks that this new #cryptocurrency will be barely more-successful than Dogecoin, and far less-cute."
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£20 for a boiled egg, one piece of toast and a mug of tea?
A Twitter thread about one man's experience of a London cafe where he made his own boiled egg and soldiers and paid £20... and why that's great.
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Remember NonStopHammerTi.me? By order of the Queen, Dan will Remain committed to an idea.
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Dan receives an unexpected Fathers' Day card because his eldest (to whom he's "Uncle Dan") decided he deserved one too.
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Dan's employer recently ran a staff survey which produced many interesting results, but he got a warm fuzzy feeling from one in particular.
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The problem with single page apps
Chris Ferdinandi shares his concerns about SPAs, and I echo with my own.
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Visit the Ashmolean Museum
Keep an eye out for our youngest (and, briefly, me!) in this promotional video just released by the Ashmolean Museum.
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Look After Lorcán
Dan's friend Jen's two-year-old son Lorcán suffers from cystic fibrosis, and can't get the medicine he needs. Can you help?
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Berlin 8:00 a.m.
A great (interactive) demonstration of how and why phantom traffic jams occur: why some people wanting to drive faster can result in EVERYBODY having to drive slower!
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How to Draw a Horse
Dan reshares a comic about... drawing horses? Is that it? Really?
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The last Soviet citizen: The cosmonaut who was left behind in space - Russia Beyond
Repost of the story of Sergei Krikalev, who was aboard Mir when the Soviet Union collapsed and found himself both stateless and weightless.
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Reducing motion with the picture element
A simple, elegant way to use an inline CSS media query to provide "prefers-reduced-motion" support on animated content.
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Goat LARP
Oh, I thought: it's LARPing but with goats: well, whatever floats your goat... but no, I was wrong.
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Elderflower season is here once again and the eldest and I are kicking off our elderflower cordial production line!