Blog
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180 Tips for Remote Working
Dan reshares a list of remote working tips, along with links to some more tongue-in-cheek looks at the practice.
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Spoiled by the Web
Tyler Sticka relates the time that Apple made him rebuild and resubmit his app because it was 3 years old. And no other reason.
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Geohashing Resurected
Dan resurrects the "official" Geohashing website (as if he didn't have enough to do) with a little help from the community.
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'There's zero evidence that it's worse for children'
Yet another article showing that - except for the bigotry of other people - there are no downsides to being a child of polyamorous parents.
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What are blogs?
@wordpressdotcom shares a video from Jeopardy in which wordpress.com is featured.
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Chlorination Chicken
Jeremy Keith makes a sad joke about Brexit.
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HTML attributes to improve your two factor experience
Dan summarises a Twilio article showing how your tags can be improved to better-support two-factor authentication.
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City Roads
City Roads, by Andrei Kashcha, is an open source project for extracting highway data from OpenStreetMap and rendering it as simplistic SVG files.
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Going for a roll on a lake in Maine
A beautiful and hypotonic video of a wind-propelled frisbee going for a skate across a frozen lake, improved only by the epic subtitles.
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Joe's First Computer Encounter
Jennifer Morrow shares a story about a user testing experience during which a serendipitous encounter taught her more than she could have expected.
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What's the harm in reading?
Dan recently shared a link to a short story about gender identity, about which the Internet went nuts. The Outline takes a closer look.
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Maps that Talk
Dan's former colleague Nick Millea shows off some artefacts that didn't make it into the Bodleian's Talking Maps exhibition.
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How to explain academic publishing to a five year old
Ned Potter tweeted earlier this month about the importance of open access, using a comedic analogy about cows. Dan identifies as a goat.
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Wheelbarrow Parkour!
Wheelbarrow parkour: the sport you never knew existed! (And doesn't...)
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New browser on the block: Flow
QuirksMode reports that a new browser engine is on the horizon, and Dan is amazingly surprised.