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Day: 27 October 2024

  • Parenting is about sacrifices.

    Full image of Dan drinks a beer, a children's football match is being played in the background.
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    Dan drinks a beer, a children's football match is being played in the background.

    Here, I'm making the noble sacrifice of forcing myself to drink a delicious beer so my 10-year-old can use the customer-only bathroom at a beachside amateur football club. Such a sacrifice.

    • Note
    • posted 27 October, 2024
  • Me, hacking challenging Javascript at work: "Damn, I need a holiday."

    Full image of Dan sits at a laptop in a hotel bar, a view of Barcelona out of the window behind him, a beer bottle alongside him.
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    Dan sits at a laptop in a hotel bar, a view of Barcelona out of the window behind him, a beer bottle alongside him.

    Me, hacking challenging Javascript on sabbatical: "Ah, so relaxing."

    • Note
    • posted 27 October, 2024
  • Dan and a child wave in a street.

    Found GCAG598 Mimetic - Passeig de GrΓ cia

    This checkin to GCAG598 Mimetic - Passeig de GrΓ cia reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. QEF for the geokid and I while exploring beautiful Barcelona this wet weekend. Greetings from Oxford, UK. TFTC!

    Read more - about 1 minutes (18 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GCAG598
    • posted 27 October, 2024
  • Dan, lying in bed with his finger to his lips, lit by a laptop screen showing this blog post.

    Hour of Ambiguity

    Waking during the "hour of uncertainty" at the end of European Summer Time, I find myself wondering why we no longer expect computers to tell us what they're doing about daylight savings, and when.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (496 words)

    • Article
    • posted 27 October, 2024

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