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Year: 2019

  • Why do people choose frameworks over vanilla JS?

    This week on Twitter, Maxime Euziรจre asked why people choose large frameworks over vanilla JS. There are quite a few reasons. Some of them are really valid. Many of them aren't.

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    • Repost
    • posted 25 April, 2019
  • Frame from Tailsteak's 20-page comic "Escape Room"

    Escape Room [NSFW]

    If you've always wanted a comic combining B/D, gay sex, and escape room puzzles, by an awesome artist, you're in luck...

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    • Repost
    • 1 comment
    • posted 25 April, 2019
  • Performed maintenance for GC1G4E3 Kinkering Congs Their Titles Take

    This checkin to GC1G4E3 Kinkering Congs Their Titles Take reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Added more-waterproof cache container. Improved clue. Note that old cache container may still be in place: wasn't able to find it and was being watched by muggles; I'll return to re-hunt for and remove the โ€ฆ

    Read more (38 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC1G4E3
    • posted 24 April, 2019
  • Performed maintenance for OK045D Kinkering Congs Their Titles Take

    This checkin to OK045D Kinkering Congs Their Titles Take reflects an opencache.uk log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Added new cache container. Improved clue.

    Read more - about 1 minutes (6 words)

    • Checkin
    • to OK045D
    • posted 24 April, 2019
  • We're moving from Stage 2 to Stage 3 polyamory

    Alan M. cites Leanna Wolfe's claim that we're moving, culturally-speaking, from the second to the third phase of the polyamory movement.

    Read more (226 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 24 April, 2019
  • Shakespeare's Dead

    Out of the ordinary: getting digital...

    Getting digital at the Bodleian; a piece celebrating the work of my team.

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    • Repost
    • 1 comment
    • posted 23 April, 2019
  • G7 Comes Out in Favor of Encryption Backdoors




    From a G7 meeting of interior ministers in Paris this month, an "outcome document":
    Encourage Internet companies to establish lawful access solutions for their products and services, including data that is encrypted, for law enforcement and competent authorities to access digital evidence, when it is removed or hosted on IT servers located abroad or โ€ฆ

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    • Repost
    • posted 23 April, 2019
  • Image representing post: Oranges and Lemons

    Oranges and Lemons

    Our eldest sings a classic song.

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    • Video
    • posted 22 April, 2019
  • Posted a note for GC1G4E3 Kinkering Congs Their Titles Take

    This checkin to GC1G4E3 Kinkering Congs Their Titles Take reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. New cache container is assembled and ready to deploy as soon as I'm in the vicinity; hopefully next week!

    Read more - about 1 minutes (19 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC1G4E3
    • posted 21 April, 2019
  • Two small plastic ducks; one blue, one yellow.

    Our youngest, aged 2, may have just came up with his first joke.

    Yellow duck: Quack quack quack. Quack quack quack quack.

    Blue duck: Shut up. I hate quacking.

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    • Note
    • 6 comments
    • posted 21 April, 2019
  • The Marvel Cinematic Universe in Chronological Order (almost)

    Avengers Endgame: The Marvel Cinematic Universe explained

    The BBC have adapted a Marvel infographic to show the order you SHOULD watch their films in.

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    • Repost
    • 1 comment
    • posted 21 April, 2019
  • Installing NonStopHammerTi.me as a standalone PWA in Edge

    Edge Blink and Progressive Web Apps

    Dan investigates the pioneering Progressive Web App features of Edge Dev.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (712 words)

    • Article
    • 2 comments
    • posted 19 April, 2019
  • Image representing post: Note #13404

    @rjavarley here's the photos I promised to send as you set off this morning on your epic sponsored Lime Bike ride from Lyme Regis to Limekilns.

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    • Note
    • 1 comment
    • posted 19 April, 2019
  • Found GCHDZH Cobblers! (Dorset)

    This checkin to GCHDZH Cobblers! (Dorset) reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Just visiting while dropping off my brother in law for his sponsored 500 mile "Lyme Regis to Limekilns on a Lime Bike" cycle, and thought I'd hit a couple of local caches before I set off back to โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GCHDZH
    • 1 comment
    • posted 19 April, 2019
  • Found GC61PA7 In the Lyme light

    This checkin to GC61PA7 In the Lyme light reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. While dropping off my partner's brother and his friend on their 500 mile "Lyme Regis to Limekilns on a Lime Bike" sponsored cycle ride, I took the opportunity for a quick grab of this nicely hidden โ€ฆ

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    • Checkin
    • to GC61PA7
    • 1 comment
    • posted 19 April, 2019

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