Month: January 2020
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Subscribing to The Far Side (by RSS!)
The Far Side is back, and (for the first time) it has a website and daily comics. But no RSS feed? Let's fix that...
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Which emoji scissors close?
Dan's watched cheeseburgers and complained about jugglers, but it took until wh0 pointed it out that he saw how broken scissors are. In emoji, that is.
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It's been said that you're not really part of a new #dev team until you break something user-facing. Today I achieved that milestone. Whoops.
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Popcorn
A 13-second short film/art project about making just one piece of popcorn.
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Nice simple design, @typehut, but with no RSS, Atom, nor h-feed you've made a blog platform to which readers can only subscribe by email. 😢
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It's 2020 and you're in the future
Wait But Why produces another one of those lists of things that are now closer to some-other-event than today, and Dan passes comment on their process.
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Fix your PC with a crystal pendulum
Uploaded to YouTube 11 years ago, in what now feels like an earlier era, this old classic still makes me smile every time.
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Automattic Transition (days -50 to 78)
A nice round 256 days since he applied to Automattic, Dan reflects on the whirlwind that has been his first two months working there.
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The Legend of the Homicidal Fire-Proof Salamander
Wired wrote an article about the mythology surrounding salamanders, and it reminds Dan of other animal myths.
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This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web
Dan looks at what Jeff Huang's manifesto means for him individually as a blogger.
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I ignored warnings from friends and family not to marry my husband
A surprisingly uplifting story from the Washington Post.
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Film : Star Wars IX : The Rise of Skywalker
Andrew Stephens' opinion of The Rise of Skywalker very-closely echoes Dan's.
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Found GC2VT9P Giants Graves
This checkin to GC2VT9P Giants Graves reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Walked over from Pendragon Castle in spite of the muddy conditions, although our party was reduced from 7 to just 3 by the time we got to the GZ as the kids gave up and turned back. Not …
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Found GC1YHN9 Lady Anne’s Highway: Pendragon
This checkin to GC1YHN9 Lady Anne’s Highway: Pendragon reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. First find of 2020. Came out for a New Year's Day walk with extended family whom we're visiting and decided to visit the ruin. Checked for nearby caches and spotted this one. Took some finding as …