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Found GLR9ZHJJ T'drath #5
This checkin to GLR9ZHJJ T'drath #5 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Our second holiday in Newport and a chance to hunt for a handful of the caches we'd missed last time around. A short walk by my partner fleeblewidget and I yesterday evening brought us to an easy find …
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How to find a wonderful idea
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
His nuclear research helped a judge determine that former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko had been assassinated – likely on Putin’s orders. Just months after the verdict, the scientist himself was found stabbed to death with two knives. Police deemed it a suicide, but US intelligence officials suspect it was murder...
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Found GLR8Y7C0 Road to Parrog
This checkin to GLR8Y7C0 Road to Parrog reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. An easy find while taking my nephew out for a morning walk in his pushchair. Poor little fella fell asleep before we got to the GZ, though, knocked out perhaps by this morning's early heat! Nice and …
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You will gain 50 Windows XP
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Found GLR8CM1D The Lone Singer
This checkin to GLR8CM1D The Lone Singer reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. AltDan with a geocache. AltDan with a geocache. A quick and easy find on a walk to the shops while visiting my partner's husband's grandmother (who lives just around the corner)! Lovely day for it!
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Sub-Pixel Problems in CSS
Something that jumped at me, recently, was a rendering dilemma that browsers have to encounter, and gracefully handle, on a day-by-day basis with little, to no, standardization.
Take the following page for example. You have 4 floated divs, each with a width of 25%, contained within a parent div of width 50px. Here’s the question: How … -
Why You Only Need to Test with 5 Users
Some people think that usability is very costly and complex and that user tests should be reserved for the rare web design project with a huge budget and a lavish time schedule. Not true. Elaborate usability tests are a waste of resources. The best results come from testing no more than 5 users and running …
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You Are Not Google Bradfield
Software engineers go crazy for the most ridiculous things. We like to think that we’re hyper-rational, but when we have to choose a technology, we end up in a kind of frenzy — bouncing from one person’s Hacker News comment to another’s blog post until, in a stupor, we float helplessly toward the brightest light and … -
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Theresa May to launch wide-ranging internet regulation and security changes despite not winning majority
Theresa May looks set to launch wide-ranging internet regulation and plans to fundamentally change how technology works despite not having won a majority.
In the speech in which she committed to keep governing despite calls to stand down, the prime minister made reference to extending powers for the security services. Those powers – which include regulation … -
Stones Under Yetzin
Dan's been running a roleplaying campaign for a few friends, and now that campaign's got it's own blog (not to mention a suite of companion apps, because... well, it's Dan).
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Digest for May 2017
Summary
This month I shared a story about how playing with our toddler forced upon me a new way of thinking about my grief over my dad's death and raved against AMP, Google's poisonous new Web-ish technology.
I reshared posts about rule-based password security validation and disallowing the pasting of passwords into forms. I also shared … -
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
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Playing Dead - Toddlers Gone Weird
At the request of a toddler, Dan spends an afternoon repeatedly re-enacting the circumstances of his father's death.