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Reply to @ADumbGreyHam
Dan replies to Adam's tweet about Dan's dad's public transport legacy.
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Archived GC7R0HB The Fairy Elevator
This checkin to GC7R0HB The Fairy Elevator reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Dropped by to visit and discovered this had been vandalised again; I don't think it's maintainable in its current location. Archiving.
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Shredding eight years of old payslips
Finally convinced he's not going to need them any longer, Dan shreds 8 years of past Bodleian payslips.
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Reply to: Indelible
Dan's friend Bryn gets a tattoo, and Dan shares his thoughts.
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Text Rendering Hates You
Alexis Beingessner takes a delightful dive into the variety of issues that face developers who have to implement text rendering. Turns out this is, and might always remain, an unsolved issue.
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Time-Efficient Shuffling
Dan proposes a more complexity-efficient alternative to the Fisher-Yates shuffling algorithm. And it's silly.
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Using JSLint For Evil - YouTube
JSON inventor Douglas Crockford explains why he gave permission for the reference implementation of JSLint to be used for evil.
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Supply-Chain Security and Trust
Bruce Schneier shares thoughts about why supply-chain attacks are, for now, undefeatable.
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Temporarily disabled GC1G4E3 Kinkering Congs Their Titles Take
This checkin to GC1G4E3 Kinkering Congs Their Titles Take reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Looks like this cache has been muggled, and its hiding place is no longer usable. I'll look to see if it can be moved somewhere else in the vicinity and the puzzle updated accordingly.
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Consume less, create more
We should spend less time reading and more time writing online. Dan's comments on an inspiring essay.
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Perpetual Flip Calendar
Video showing the construction of an ingenious perpetual calendar and the clever action that results.
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Retro-PESOSing my Reviews
Dan's reviews, future and historical, can now be found here following his work at IndieWebCamp Oxford 2019.
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HTML Movies
HTML tags which share their names with (often terrible) films.
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Performed maintenance for GC7QG1Z Oxford’s Wild Wolf Three
This checkin to GC7QG1Z Oxford’s Wild Wolf Three reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Performed routine maintenance at the cache site; everything seems well.
A couple of 'cachers have reported that the GZ is inaccessible owing to the path being overgrown. The "obvious" path to the cache really is pretty heavily …