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Month: February 2022

  • Dan, windswept, in a field

    Geohashing expedition 2022-02-19 52 -2

    There's a footpath in Kinnersley, Herefordshire. And now Dan's been there.

    Read more (476 words)

    • Checkin
    • to 2022-02-19 52 -2
    • 2 comments
    • posted 19 February, 2022
  • Image representing post: DNDle (Wordle, but with D&D monster stats)

    DNDle (Wordle, but with D&D monster stats)

    Dan releases DNDle, a Wordle clone where you assign characteristics to try to guess the Dungeons and Dragons monster-of-the-day.

    Read more (407 words)

    • Article
    • 24 comments
    • posted 16 February, 2022
  • Treemap showing countries of Automatticians. North America and specifically the USA dominates, the UK has the most in Europe, etc.

    Automattic International

    Off the back of a colleague's throwaway comment, Dan makes cartograms showing how his coworkers' countries proportionally dominate their world map.

    Read more (470 words)

    • Article
    • 8 comments
    • posted 14 February, 2022
  • Grey squirrel sitting on a log.

    Coco the Criminal and Peanut the Prophet

    After squirrels steal his bird feeder, Dan wonders about their motives... and what happened next.

    Read more (403 words)

    • Article
    • 3 comments
    • posted 10 February, 2022
  • The kenburns-bottom CSS effect selected using Animista.

    I know what it means, but my inner child still sniggers every time I see @CSSAnimista's effect "kenburns-bottom".

    Read more - about 1 minutes (18 words)

    • Note
    • 5 comments
    • posted 9 February, 2022
  • Dan in a grassy field holding a GPSr and grinning

    Geohashing expedition 2022-02-08 51 -1

    A field near Kingston Bagpuize is the site of a geohashing expedition by Dan.

    Read more (331 words)

    • Checkin
    • to 2022-02-08 51 -1
    • posted 8 February, 2022
  • Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle in which the answer to 70 across can be answered in two different ways.

    STAR T/W R/A E/R K/S

    Dan shares and comments on an excellent crossword puzzle.

    Read more (243 words)

    • Repost
    • of this original
    • 1 comment
    • posted 8 February, 2022
  • Blog posts by type and month, a graph showing how articles barely change throughout the year but reposts are highest in the first half of the year, checkins peak in the spring and summer, and notes get a big boost in November.

    Reply to An Accidentally β€˜Anti-January’ January



    Siobhan said:



    I fell off the blogging bandwagon just as everyone else was hopping onto it.

    ...


    Siobhan Bamber

    I was just thinking the same! It felt like everybody and their dog did Bloganuary last month, meanwhile I went in the opposite direction!

    Historically, there's been an annual dip in my blogging around February/March …

    Read more (211 words)

    • Reply
    • posted 7 February, 2022
  • World map showing the locations of Dan, his immediate team, and its parent team. There's a cluster of nine pins Europe, a few pins further East in Russia and Indonesia, one in Cape Town, two in North America, and one in Central America.

    Automattic Privilege

    Dan's thinks about the geographic/cultural privileges he enjoys within his international workplace.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (664 words)

    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 7 February, 2022
  • Every time I log in to HackerOne my brain pronounces it to rhyme with "pepperoni". That's normal, right?

    Read more - about 1 minutes (18 words)

    • Note
    • posted 4 February, 2022
  • Image representing post: Gutenberg versus Elementor - the beginners challenge

    Gutenberg versus Elementor - the beginners challenge

    Dan comments on "Gutenberg versus Elementor - the beginners challenge" and what WordPress developers might learn from it about UX.

    Read more (295 words)

    • Repost
    • of this original
    • posted 2 February, 2022
  • Dan with a GPSr doing a silly grin

    Geohashing expedition 2022-02-01 51 -1

    Dan visits an under-construction solar power plant in an effort to reach a geohashpoint.

    Read more (396 words)

    • Checkin
    • to 2022-02-01 51 -1
    • 12 comments
    • posted 1 February, 2022

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