Year: 2021
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Tribute to Peter Huntley
One of Dan's dad's former colleagues puts a video on YouTube about him on the ninth anniversary of his death, for some reason.
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The Varieties of Intimate Relationship
The Information Is Beautiful folks have made an infographic showing how different kinds of relationships relate to one another. It's a relationship-relationship diagram!
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Retrohashing expedition 2012 02 19 51 -1
On the ninth anniversary of his dad's death, Dan continues a tradition of going for a cycle and getting lost.
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Basilisk collection
Blackle Mori's "Basilisk collection" is an amazing piece of alternate history science fiction, presented in the style of a Wikipedia article. Dan explains why it's so good and encourages you to read it.
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Review for ProtonMail Encryption Status by Morgan Larosa
The first review for Dan's first Thunderbird plugin gives it... five stars! Hurrah!
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The Coolest Thing About GPS
I'm currently doing a course, through work, delivered by BetterOn Video. The aim of the course is to improve my video presentation skills, in particular my engagement with the camera and the audience.
I made this video based on the week 2 prompt "make a video 60-90 seconds long about something you're an expert on". The idea came from a talk I used to give at the University of Oxford. -
The Secret of Magic
I'm currently doing a course, through work, delivered by BetterOn Video. The aim of the course is to improve my video presentation skills, in particular my engagement with the camera and the audience.
I made this video based on the week 2 prompt "make a video 60-90 seconds long about something you're passionate about". The idea came from a blog post I wrote back in 2014. -
Coca-Cola company trials first paper bottle
Coca-Cola want a highly-recyclable new bottle, so they're experimenting with complex paper bottles. Rather than just using glass, which worked great for them for most of a century. Sigh.
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Entles (Gender-Neutral Aunts, Uncles, etc.)
With thanks to Enfys' latest blog post, Dan learns a new word and he loves it.
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Axe Feather 2021
Dan recreates a 16-year old Flash-based interactive ad using modern web technologies.
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I'm On Fire
In 2020 at @automattic my team, Alpha, forked into teams Fuel and Fire. But it took 'til now for me to notice that our internal systems use something like the string "${jobTitle} on ${teamName}". Which leads to THIS excellent title.
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Octave Compass
Dan shares the "Octave Compass": an interactive visualisation of music keys.
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Further Lessons in Wood-Fired Pizza
Dan makes another attempt at cooking pizza in his wood-fired oven. It turns out better than last time, and he learns a lot.
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Reply to "I was permanently banned by Facebook"
Dan replies to fellow Automattician Donncha's post about getting banned from Facebook to share his own experience, which lead to a similar conclusion.
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Loremen Podcast Simulator
Michael's latest experiment produces random believable folklore.