Month: November 2019
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Geohashing expedition 2019-11-29 51 -1
Dan fails to reach a hashpoint on account of wandering into a bog.
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Found GC64QG0 Post Post SN4 309 (Alex Park)
This checkin to GC64QG0 Post Post SN4 309 (Alex Park) reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. After a quick pre-breakfast expedition to the (very good, but under-visited) nearby cache GC18GJB, I decided to take a minor diversion on my way back to Alexandra House via this little cache. An easy …
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Found GC18GJB Twelve O'Clock High
Dan takes an early-morning hike to find a geocache, and discovers a mysterious bus stop.
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Performed maintenance for GC7Q96B Oxford's Long-Lost Zoo
Dan checks up on one his his geocaches before winter sets in.
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What's wrong with my password, @PostOffice? Is it too secure for you?
It does nothing to fix your "old-fashioned" image that your password policy is still stuck in the 1990s. @PWTooStrong -
Review: Vintage Vibrators
Epiphora reviews vintage vibrators that are old enough to have belonged to her great grandmother. Hilarity ensues.
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Third party
Jeremy Keith wonders if the Web would have third-party cookies and JS at all if it were invented today, and Dan weighs in.
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30 Years in the making | The All-New Renault CLIO
If Renault had wanted Dan to buy a Clio instead of the new Zoe, they should have shown him THIS ad. All the feels!
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Evolving Computer Words: "GIF"
People think of GIFs as animations for the Web, but that's only a fraction of their story.
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That moment when you realise, to your immense surprise, that the research you've spent most of the year on might actually demonstrate the thing you set out to test after all. 😲
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Should accessibility features be optional?
Go Make Things talks about the duty of library developers to add on-by-default accessibility features, and Dan summarises the conclusion.
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Who'd have thought that my onboarding fortnight at @WooCommerce / @Automattic would conclude with a very literal "on-boarding". Hang five! 🏄🏼♂️
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Well, Cape Town, you were a blast. But now it's time to get back to my normal life for a bit.
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Evolving Computer Words: "Broadband"
Dan continues to examine words whose popular meaning have diverged from their technical definition; today, he looks at "broadband".
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Seconds after I took this "penguin selfie", a third penguin snuck up behind me and bit me on the arse. 🇿🇦🐧😧