Year: 2024
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Enjoying a glass of cava while the kids peer down out of the window of a Barcelona skyscraper.
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Half-full champagne flute on a table. In the background, two children look out of a floor-to-ceiling window.
Day 8 of my sabbatical. Think I'm doing this right?
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This boy is excited and ready for Spain!
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A boy smiles widely as he sits, playing with his tablet, in an aeroplane window seat.
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This child is eating sausages with one hand while playing a video game about eating sausages with the other.
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A child slouches in an airport lounge chair. Her right hand is being used to eat a plate of sausages. Her left hand is playing 'Fork N Sausage' on a tablet.
Is this life-imitating-art or the other way around? Who can possibly say?
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Off to Spain! BRB.
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Dan, Ruth, and their children on an airport car park shuttle bus.
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My Oldest Article of Clothing
I own a shirt that I bought for 50p, 23 years ago. How on earth has it lasted so long?
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How I Learned to Enjoy Pickled Onion Monster Munch
I like pickled onions. And I like the vinegar flavouring and the onion flavouring from salt & vinegar and cheese & onion crisps, respectively. So I ought to like pickled onion crisps too. So why don't I... and can I rationally persuade my brain that it's wrong?
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Geohashing expedition 2024-10-22 51 -1
My sabbatical might give me more time for geohashing, so long as the numbers come up right. So let's take an expedition up Harcourt Hill with the dog (plus video)...
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Bad Names for Servers
Not for the first time, our eldest child has drawn me a network diagram. It's cute, but I've outright refused to name one of the new servers I'm provisioning after our dog. Here's why...
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Day #2 of my sabbatical had a morning in which I've mostly been roped into some charity-related digital forensics... until I got distracted by dndle.app, which apparently I accidentally broke yesterday! Move Fast and Fix Things!
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Dan, looking concerned, in front of Github and Dndle.app.
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Kicking off day #1 of my three-month sabbatical from work at a hotel in Reading, at a meeting with fellow Three Rings volunteers to discuss our organisational culture and values.
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Dan sits in front of two laptops (one of which shows a photo of an echidna for some reason), in a meeting room full of casually-dressed volunteers.
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The Beeb continue to keep adding more and more non-news content to the BBC News RSS feed (like this ad for the iPlayer app!), so I've once again had to update my script to "fix" the feed so that it only contains, y'know, news.
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Screenshot from a web-based RSS reader, showing an item "Download the BBC iPlayer app"
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Nex in CapsulePress
I've extended CapsulePress to support Nex, an ultra-lightweight smolweb protocol from the Nightfall City community.
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Wrote note for GC9GTV3 Drive Slowly; Fox Crossing
This checkin to GC9GTV3 Drive Slowly; Fox Crossing reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Checked-in in this cache to ensure it was still healthy, after a recent spate of muggling. Happy to report the cache is well.
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✅ Inbox Zero
✅ Slack Notification Zero
✅ Assigned PR Reviews Zero
✅ Owned PRs... one, but it's approved and just waiting for the right moment to mergeThat's got the be the first time in... literally years... that I've ended a workday so "clean". Feels amazing.
There'll be a mess again tomorrow, but hopefully only of a manageable size because I'm particularly clean to finish this week at "Work Zero".
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Happy International Pronouns Day! 🥳
I use he/him pronouns.