Month: September 2020
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Performed maintenance for GC8YZKJ Sunken Bunker
This checkin to GC8YZKJ Sunken Bunker reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Dropped by to modify the cache in a way that should prevent it floating away on the event that the nearby river floods. Took the lobster travel bug.
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I got married and had kids so you don't have to
Robert Heaton takes a break from blogging about technology to share the latest chapter of his experience of being a parent.
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The most important feature of Sublime Text
Nikita Prokopov shares his favourite feature of Sublime Text. It's one of Dan's favourite, too.
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AI as an Author
Dan shares some of his favourite stories from the world of natural language artificial intelligence.
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Winamp Skin Museum
Webamp's Winamp Skin Museum is a beautiful piece of interactive nostalgia.
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When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's passport number
The hacker known as "Alex" spots that Quantas expose all kinds of data to barely-authenticated customers.
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The Unexpected Solace in Learning to Play Piano
Christoph Niemann used lockdown as an excuse to learn to play the piano. So did Dan, sort-of.
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Dune (2020)
The first trailer's dropped for the 2020 reinterpretation of Frank Herbert's Dune and Dan's super excited.
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CSS Logical Properties
Andy Bell recommends use of CSS logical properties to help lay out and space content in a language-independent way.
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Geohashing expedition 2020-09-09 51 -1
In an effort to geohash in every district of Oxfordshire, Dan takes a break in the Vale of White Horse.
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Couldn't find GC5XHJG Layby Dash A
This checkin to GC5XHJG Layby Dash A reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Parked my car in this lay-by while on my way to the 2020-09-09 51 -1 geohashpoint. Took a quick look for the cache but the farmer in the adjacent field parked his tractor right alongside me and …
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Firefox Daylight Makes Me Sad
Firefox Daylight broke Dan's mobile web browsing experience badly enough that he switched to Fennec F-Droid.