Year: 2020
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Pyjama Party Water Fight
There comes a point where you've run out of new lockdown activity ideas, and you just start combining random pairs of activities you've already done.
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Future Challenges for Remote Working
As more and more companies (especially tech companies) talk about retaining a remote-work culture after the coronavirus crisis, Dan considers some of the future challenges they might face.
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A new Automattician who started this week looked me up to thank me for the first in my series of blog posts about starting with @automattic. I feel useful! 😍
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Man makes money buying his own pizza on DoorDash app
Dan comments on and summarises a news story that's got it all: screen scraping, pizza, venture capital, loophole exploitation, pizza, tech startups, and pizza.
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Scunthorpe Sans
The vole.wtf folks have made a font which uses ligatures to self-censor any naughty words you type.
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Why $FAMOUS_COMPANY switched to $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY
Saagar Jha tells the now-familiar story of how a bunch of techbros solved their scaling problems by reinventing the wheel.
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Lucky Devil Eats
Strip clubs in the US can't run during the lockdown, and aren't eligible for financial support. But one strip club found a clever workaround.
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Found GC4PV71 BFG #05 – Slow-worm
This checkin to GC4PV71 BFG #05 – Slow-worm reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Another quick find with the kids on an otherwise random meander around the woods. Love that you've used proper-sized containers for the area. TFTC!
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Found GC4PV7E BFG #3– The Black Hairstreak
This checkin to GC4PV7E BFG #3– The Black Hairstreak reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I first came to this series in 2014 - seems like a lifetime ago! - but got called away by something (a problem with the beta of Three Rings' Milestone: Promethium) before I could find …
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What's wrong with London's boroughs?
Jay Foreman's back with a long-awaited tenth episode of Unfinished London.
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Chafed nipples. But we only have Frozen II themed plasters in the house. So now I'm wearing an Elsa & Anna pasties. How did my life come to this?
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Automattic Lockdown (days 79 to 206)
In another 128-day-interval update, Dan looks back on months two through six working for Automattic.
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I think our local red kites were mostly living on roadkill, and the lockdown means they're not getting fed. They've also forgotten how to hunt: this afternoon I watched one get its ass handed to it by a medium-sized crow.
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Thursday
Gareth's providing a daily briefing including all the important things that the government wants you to know about the coronavirus crisis... and a few things that they didn't think to tell you, but perhaps they should've.
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The next time we want to import a horse to Russia it will be a doddle
Sergey Radchenko shares a diplomatic report recounting the story of trying to get through the bureaucracy moving horses across the Russian border in 1992.