Blog
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An app can be a home-cooked meal
Author Robin Sloan tells the story of the app he wrote just for his family, and Dan reflects on his own experience of making apps for audiences of few (or one!).
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Jokes I've Told That My Male Colleagues Didn't Like
Humour tells you where the trouble is. Don't be offended! It's only a joke! ;-)
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Where Do New Viruses Come From?
Watch a 10-minute primer on where "new viruses" come from; see if you know the basics.
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Big Mandalorian Iron
The story of the first two episodes of The Mandalorian, told to the tune of Big Iron.
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The Neighbors' Window
Dan raves about The Neighbor's Window, which won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film last month.
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The Happy Song
The most delightful, joyous, carefree song you'll hear all week, plus a music video that's equal parts stop-motion and saccharine.
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Dating App Writers Room
A new video from BriTANick! Now there's a rare treat.
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Identifying Post Kinds in WordPress RSS Feeds
Dan shares the code he's written to improve Indieweb Post Kinds support in his RSS feeds.
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Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch, by strangling it
Nicholas Carlo describes the situation where people have risky, hard-to-refactor code and reimplement the entire system instead. Now those people have two problems.
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Found GC37D9X London Bridge
This checkin to GC37D9X London Bridge reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found with fleeblewidget on a day trip to London from Oxford. Finding was pretty easy - GPSr dropped us right on it and we spotted it immediately. Waiting for gaps in the human traffic, even on this rainy …
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Found GC13M76 From a Swan to the Canary: St Magnus the Martyr
This checkin to GC13M76 From a Swan to the Canary: St Magnus the Martyr reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found after a brief search with fleeblewidget. Hint doesn't make any sense to us! TFTC.
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Found GC13NEF From a Swan to the Canary: Custom House
This checkin to GC13NEF From a Swan to the Canary: Custom House reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found after a brief search with fleeblewidget. Bigger container than I expected! TFTC.
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Found GC13M78 From a Swan to the Canary: Tower - Save me!
This checkin to GC13M78 From a Swan to the Canary: Tower - Save me! reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. An easy find with fleeblewidget during a day trip to London from Oxford. Posed for a photo in front of the bridge to give us an excuse to mill around …
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Pay Up, Or We'll Make Google Ban Your Ads
Brian Krebs writes about a new trend of Web extortion, based on threatening to get a victim's website's ads demonetised by pretending to be the victim and attempting to exploit them.
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Today my #distributed #remotework office is provided by @OCFI_OI, which provides me that most #Oxford of views: simultaneously containing architecture of the 1960s... and the 1160s.