Year: 2020
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Visitors, Developers, or Machines
Dan comments on Garrett Dimon's thoughts about performance bottlenecks being moved, not removed, by the adoption of client-side web frameworks.
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The Board Game Remix Kit
A free kit to help you make more of classic family boardgames like Monopoly, Cluedo and Scrabble.
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Pass The Pepper: Social Distancing is Nothing to Sneeze At
Joseph Herscher's latest Rube Goldberg style machine is something else.
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Fox In Sox
Here's a new trick, Mr. Knox: Wes Tank raps Dr. Seuss's Fox In Sox to Dr. Dre beats.
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Lockdown Productivity: Spaceship You
CGP Grey's latest video, on lockdown productivity, is great. But you probably already knew that.
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Mackerelmedia Fish
Dan reviews Mackerelmedia Fish, a surreal game by Nathalie Lawhead, and recommends that you give it a go.
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Giving a Damn at Scale
Bridget Stewart encourages us to look at the mess we make of Web applications, and how COVID-19 has really shone a light on that, and Dan talks about the lessons he hopes we'll learn as a result.
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Getting Hired at Automattic
Jerry Jones writes about his experience of Automattic's recruitment process, which is a more-readable summary than Dan's was!
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Dungeon Drawers
Cory Doctorow shares photos of a roleplaying game dungeon built into a chest of drawers.
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Digital Climate Strike's Carbon Footprint
Dan criticises a website promoting a "Digital Climate Strike" as being among the world's worst websites from the perspective of its carbon footprint.
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For the benefit of my South African colleagues on Slack, I give you the #maskchallenge #emoji.
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Happy Birthday, You're Fired
Robin's latest blog sort-of reads like a contemporaneously-written "what I did on my holidays" report, except that it's pretty-much about the opposite of a holiday: it chronicles Robin's adventures in the North of England during these strange times.
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How to not make a résumé in React
I’ve seen a fair share of tutorial links floating around in newsletters and Twitter and the like recently. They all promise the same thing, namely how to use React to create a résumé.
I mean, I get it. It’s important to have something to build towards when learning a new skill, especially with … -
Coronavirus: what the hell do we do now?!
Andrew Steele's produced another COVID-19-related video, this time focussing on the endgame of the crisis, and you should go watch it.
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Found GC4CEXE CowSlip
This checkin to GC4CEXE CowSlip reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Like many others, I came at this cache from the wrong side of the ditch/fence and had to make my way East a little way to find a suitable crossing point. Cache was easy to find, but it's definitely …