Year: 2020
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COVID-19 and Acedia
Security expert Bruce Schneier finds a word to describe what many us have been left feeling by the current pandemic.
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Accidental Geohashing
Dan mines his own geoposition data of the last decade to ask: did I ever accidentally visit a geohashpoint? Turns out... maybe. Ish.
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Automattic Retrospective (days 207 to 334)
The fourth in Dan's series of blog posts about his experience of working at Automattic comes as he approaches the end of his first year with the company.
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Displaying ProtonMail Encryption Status in Thunderbird
Dan releases his first Thunderbird plugin, for improving integration with ProtonMail Bridge.
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Tiled Slackmoji
Dan suggests a creative/stupid way to abuse Slack custom emoji.
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An Intense Day On Crib Goch
"Brave Dave" shares a video from an accident he attended on Crib Goch, and Dan draws parallels to his dad's death (and talks about jet-suits!).
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Archived GC827X6 2019-01-08 51 -1, 09:19
This checkin to GC827X6 2019-01-08 51 -1, 09:19 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. No longer maintainable in its current location. Couldn't find remnants, believed muggled.
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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.