Month: February 2020
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Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch, by strangling it
Nicholas Carlo describes the situation where people have risky, hard-to-refactor code and reimplement the entire system instead. Now those people have two problems.
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Found GC37D9X London Bridge
This checkin to GC37D9X London Bridge reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found with fleeblewidget on a day trip to London from Oxford. Finding was pretty easy - GPSr dropped us right on it and we spotted it immediately. Waiting for gaps in the human traffic, even on this rainy …
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Found GC13M76 From a Swan to the Canary: St Magnus the Martyr
This checkin to GC13M76 From a Swan to the Canary: St Magnus the Martyr reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found after a brief search with fleeblewidget. Hint doesn't make any sense to us! TFTC.
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Found GC13NEF From a Swan to the Canary: Custom House
This checkin to GC13NEF From a Swan to the Canary: Custom House reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found after a brief search with fleeblewidget. Bigger container than I expected! TFTC.
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Found GC13M78 From a Swan to the Canary: Tower - Save me!
This checkin to GC13M78 From a Swan to the Canary: Tower - Save me! reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. An easy find with fleeblewidget during a day trip to London from Oxford. Posed for a photo in front of the bridge to give us an excuse to mill around …
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Pay Up, Or We'll Make Google Ban Your Ads
Brian Krebs writes about a new trend of Web extortion, based on threatening to get a victim's website's ads demonetised by pretending to be the victim and attempting to exploit them.
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Today my #distributed #remotework office is provided by @OCFI_OI, which provides me that most #Oxford of views: simultaneously containing architecture of the 1960s... and the 1160s.
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Who finished second?
Nick Berry shares an amazing maths/logic puzzle, and Dan encourages you to give it a go for yourself.
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Old CSS, new CSS
eevee describes their experience of the early-CSS and pre-CSS Web, and Dan echoes a familiarity with the topics covered.
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Boneworks
Yahtzee Croshaw reviews Boneworks and considers how VR is getting along.
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Difference Between VR and AR
Dan's sister challenges him to define the difference between AR and VR, and Dan realises that he can't.
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Geohashing expedition 2020-02-22 53 -1
As a diversion from his drive from Oxford to Preston, Dan climbs a hill in the Peak District in search of a geohashpoint.
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Found GC6436N I can see the helipad from up here
This checkin to GC6436N I can see the helipad from up here reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I'm travelling today from Oxford to Preston with a diversion to see if I can make it to the 2022-02-22 53 - 1 geohashpoint, which looks likely to be on a hill …
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Geohashing expedition 2020-02-21 51 -1
This checkin to geohash 2020-02-21 51 -1 reflects a geohashing expedition. See more of Dan's hash logs. Location
North end of the village of Curbridge in Oxfordshire. Street View and satellite photography shows it as being alongside a nondescript road, but I'm aware that there's a housing estate under construction nearby and there's a new … -
Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open
Robert Heaton reverse-engineers what data his Wacom tablet is stealing from him, and Dan expresses a growing concern about surveillance capitalism.