Blog
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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.
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Fox (Household NAS)
Dan builds Fox, a NAS and application server for his household, and shoots a timelapse video of the construction.
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CSS4 is here!
Peter-Paul Koch of QuirksMode proposes that CSS4 should be declared a "thing", for marketing reasons, and Dan agrees.
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Reinventing Git interface
Nikita Prokopov proposes a series of changes to Git that would "fix" its warts without breaking backwards compatibility, and they're brilliant.
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I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter
Not what you're expecting. An unusual but interesting short story at the intersection between science fiction and... gender identity?
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Sandwichware: Machines Talking to Machines About Humans
How are we better, Dan wonders, at making conversational interfaces than interoperable standards? Why are we inventing sandwichware?
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Parent-child play: It's constant and exhausting, but is there a better way?
Dan muses on a Slate article about the challenges of being your child's playmate.
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Running Code Over Time
Eric Meyer finds a long-standing bug in his aging personal website, and Dan uses it as an excuse for yet another rant about Web standards and longevity.
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Subscribing to The Far Side (by RSS!)
The Far Side is back, and (for the first time) it has a website and daily comics. But no RSS feed? Let's fix that...
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Which emoji scissors close?
Dan's watched cheeseburgers and complained about jugglers, but it took until wh0 pointed it out that he saw how broken scissors are. In emoji, that is.
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It's been said that you're not really part of a new #dev team until you break something user-facing. Today I achieved that milestone. Whoops.
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Popcorn
A 13-second short film/art project about making just one piece of popcorn.
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Nice simple design, @typehut, but with no RSS, Atom, nor h-feed you've made a blog platform to which readers can only subscribe by email. 😢
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It's 2020 and you're in the future
Wait But Why produces another one of those lists of things that are now closer to some-other-event than today, and Dan passes comment on their process.
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Fix your PC with a crystal pendulum
Uploaded to YouTube 11 years ago, in what now feels like an earlier era, this old classic still makes me smile every time.