Month: February 2020
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Why Aren't Jehovah's Witnesses Vegetarian?
A visit from the Jehovah's Witnesses leaves Dan wondering why it's blood transfusions, not beefburgers, that they famously reject.
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Honk More, Wait More
Mumbai police are experimenting with a machine that makes the lights stay red for longer while people are honking their horns.
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The Great Flamingo Uprising
The story of the war between the geese and the flamingoes at a petting zoo. Laugh-out-loud funny.
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This equation will change how you see the world
Veritasium's latest video looks at the patterns of order and chaos in fractals, and Dan thinks it's surprisingly good.
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Building the most inaccessible site possible with a perfect Lighthouse score
Manuel Matuzovic worked hard to make a web page that's violates so many accessibility rules but still passes a computerised audit.
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Planning to attend IndieWebCamp London 2020
[RSVP] Dan plans to attend IndieWebCamp London 2020.
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Dissertation Hand-In Déjà Vu
Dan hands in his dissertation and reflects on how the experience of writing it was different to the one he wrote 16 years ago.
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Where's My Elephant?
Tom Whyman pitches a theory of history that assumes that if there's a silly option, people will take it, even if it's also a terrible one.
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180 Tips for Remote Working
Dan reshares a list of remote working tips, along with links to some more tongue-in-cheek looks at the practice.
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Spoiled by the Web
Tyler Sticka relates the time that Apple made him rebuild and resubmit his app because it was 3 years old. And no other reason.
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Geohashing Resurected
Dan resurrects the "official" Geohashing website (as if he didn't have enough to do) with a little help from the community.
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'There's zero evidence that it's worse for children'
Yet another article showing that - except for the bigotry of other people - there are no downsides to being a child of polyamorous parents.
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What are blogs?
@wordpressdotcom shares a video from Jeopardy in which wordpress.com is featured.
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Chlorination Chicken
Jeremy Keith makes a sad joke about Brexit.
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HTML attributes to improve your two factor experience
Dan summarises a Twilio article showing how your tags can be improved to better-support two-factor authentication.