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Found GC4PV7E BFG #3– The Black Hairstreak
This checkin to GC4PV7E BFG #3– The Black Hairstreak reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I first came to this series in 2014 - seems like a lifetime ago! - but got called away by something (a problem with the beta of Three Rings' Milestone: Promethium) before I could find …
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What's wrong with London's boroughs?
Jay Foreman's back with a long-awaited tenth episode of Unfinished London.
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Chafed nipples. But we only have Frozen II themed plasters in the house. So now I'm wearing an Elsa & Anna pasties. How did my life come to this?
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Automattic Lockdown (days 79 to 206)
In another 128-day-interval update, Dan looks back on months two through six working for Automattic.
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I think our local red kites were mostly living on roadkill, and the lockdown means they're not getting fed. They've also forgotten how to hunt: this afternoon I watched one get its ass handed to it by a medium-sized crow.
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Thursday
Gareth's providing a daily briefing including all the important things that the government wants you to know about the coronavirus crisis... and a few things that they didn't think to tell you, but perhaps they should've.
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The next time we want to import a horse to Russia it will be a doddle
Sergey Radchenko shares a diplomatic report recounting the story of trying to get through the bureaucracy moving horses across the Russian border in 1992.
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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!