Month: July 2019
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Heading back by train from a holiday in Derbyshire with @bornvulcan, @Crusty_Twobags, @fleeblewidget, @TheGodzillaGirl, @LadyJemma_, @Andrewsean85, and others. This trip must have been under some kind of curse...
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Reported GC2VEH2 I'm Getting Married in the Morning(Genealogy Link) needs maintenance
This checkin to GC2VEH2 I'm Getting Married in the Morning(Genealogy Link) reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Container cracked and log soaked, effectively unusable. Needs attention ASAP!
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Found GC2VEH2 I'm Getting Married in the Morning(Genealogy Link)
This checkin to GC2VEH2 I'm Getting Married in the Morning(Genealogy Link) reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found on a quick after dinner stroll with my mother from our holiday home up the road. Nice location. TFTC.
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LABS Comic RSS Archive
For the benefit of anybody wanting to read LABS comic from the beginning in their RSS reader, Dan writes a tool to facilitate that.
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LABS
If you like a webcomic to finish its run before you start reading it: LABS finished today. Go read it.
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Bus Station, Unbound
After five months of playing it, on-and-off, Dan finally gets around to reviewing Bus Station: Unbound, a piece of hypertext interactive fiction set in Preston Bus Station.
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Review of Three
This review of Three originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. Three, Unit 234 234 The Westgate, Oxford OX1 1PE, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Endless Quadrum #50
Dan can't get enough of this Rimworldme comic.
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Browsers are pretty good at loading pages, it turns out
Carter Sande observes that MDN ran faster on old-fashioned hyperlinks than it did with Javascript background loading, and explains why.
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How the Knights Hospitaller 'accidentally' became a major European air power
Let's talk about the point after WW2 where the Knights Hospitaller, of medieval crusading fame, 'accidentally' became a major European air power.
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Darkroom Printing
Rory tells the story of how he set up a darkroom in his (spare) windowless bathroom and shares his experience of becoming an increasingly analogue photographer in a digital world.
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Performed maintenance for GC7Q96B Oxford's Long-Lost Zoo
This checkin to GC7Q96B Oxford's Long-Lost Zoo reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Dropped by following TomTrxsh's log implying there was a problem with the cache container, but it seems to be fine. The lids on this kind of container can be completely removed but are easy to put back …
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Shifting into Automattic
Dan announces his upcoming departure from the Bodleian Libraries and looks forward to working with Automattic.
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JavaScript frameworks are better for accessibility (and other myths)
Chris Ferdinandi counters a Twitter user's argument that web frameworks solve a plethora of common web development challenges, and he's right.
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Dan instructs a 5 year-old in diagnosing and replacing a blown PSU in her mother's computer.