Blog
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Old CSS, new CSS
eevee describes their experience of the early-CSS and pre-CSS Web, and Dan echoes a familiarity with the topics covered.
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Boneworks
Yahtzee Croshaw reviews Boneworks and considers how VR is getting along.
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Difference Between VR and AR
Dan's sister challenges him to define the difference between AR and VR, and Dan realises that he can't.
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Geohashing expedition 2020-02-22 53 -1
As a diversion from his drive from Oxford to Preston, Dan climbs a hill in the Peak District in search of a geohashpoint.
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Found GC6436N I can see the helipad from up here
This checkin to GC6436N I can see the helipad from up here reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I'm travelling today from Oxford to Preston with a diversion to see if I can make it to the 2022-02-22 53 - 1 geohashpoint, which looks likely to be on a hill …
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Geohashing expedition 2020-02-21 51 -1
This checkin to geohash 2020-02-21 51 -1 reflects a geohashing expedition. See more of Dan's hash logs. Location
North end of the village of Curbridge in Oxfordshire. Street View and satellite photography shows it as being alongside a nondescript road, but I'm aware that there's a housing estate under construction nearby and there's a new … -
Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open
Robert Heaton reverse-engineers what data his Wacom tablet is stealing from him, and Dan expresses a growing concern about surveillance capitalism.
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Why Aren't Jehovah's Witnesses Vegetarian?
A visit from the Jehovah's Witnesses leaves Dan wondering why it's blood transfusions, not beefburgers, that they famously reject.
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Honk More, Wait More
Mumbai police are experimenting with a machine that makes the lights stay red for longer while people are honking their horns.
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The Great Flamingo Uprising
The story of the war between the geese and the flamingoes at a petting zoo. Laugh-out-loud funny.
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This equation will change how you see the world
Veritasium's latest video looks at the patterns of order and chaos in fractals, and Dan thinks it's surprisingly good.
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Building the most inaccessible site possible with a perfect Lighthouse score
Manuel Matuzovic worked hard to make a web page that's violates so many accessibility rules but still passes a computerised audit.
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Planning to attend IndieWebCamp London 2020
[RSVP] Dan plans to attend IndieWebCamp London 2020.
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Dissertation Hand-In Déjà Vu
Dan hands in his dissertation and reflects on how the experience of writing it was different to the one he wrote 16 years ago.
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Where's My Elephant?
Tom Whyman pitches a theory of history that assumes that if there's a silly option, people will take it, even if it's also a terrible one.