Category: Personal
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Bus Station, Unbound
After five months of playing it, on-and-off, Dan finally gets around to reviewing Bus Station: Unbound, a piece of hypertext interactive fiction set in Preston Bus Station.
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Review of Three
This review of Three originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. Three, Unit 234 234 The Westgate, Oxford OX1 1PE, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Endless Quadrum #50
Dan can't get enough of this Rimworldme comic.
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Browsers are pretty good at loading pages, it turns out
Carter Sande observes that MDN ran faster on old-fashioned hyperlinks than it did with Javascript background loading, and explains why.
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How the Knights Hospitaller 'accidentally' became a major European air power
Let's talk about the point after WW2 where the Knights Hospitaller, of medieval crusading fame, 'accidentally' became a major European air power.
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Darkroom Printing
Rory tells the story of how he set up a darkroom in his (spare) windowless bathroom and shares his experience of becoming an increasingly analogue photographer in a digital world.
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Performed maintenance for GC7Q96B Oxford's Long-Lost Zoo
This checkin to GC7Q96B Oxford's Long-Lost Zoo reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Dropped by following TomTrxsh's log implying there was a problem with the cache container, but it seems to be fine. The lids on this kind of container can be completely removed but are easy to put back …
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Shifting into Automattic
Dan announces his upcoming departure from the Bodleian Libraries and looks forward to working with Automattic.
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JavaScript frameworks are better for accessibility (and other myths)
Chris Ferdinandi counters a Twitter user's argument that web frameworks solve a plethora of common web development challenges, and he's right.
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Dan instructs a 5 year-old in diagnosing and replacing a blown PSU in her mother's computer.
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Dan helps a 5 year-old launch stomp rockets to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch.
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DanQ.me Ecosystem
Dan explains how he produces content for the Web, and his blog's place in the ecosystem of the places his content can be seen.
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Stellar Rescue
The survivors of the mining ship Red Dwarf sell out to take part in an advertisement for the AA. Which is awesome.
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Pure Fourier series animations for 12 oddly satisfying minutes
3Blue1Brown produced animations showing Fourier series configured to draw interesting pictures, and they're mesmerising.
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How a video game community filled my nephew's final days with joy
Mat Westhorpe on how the Elite Dangerous videogame player community came together to bring as much joy as possible to the final weeks of the life of his 15 year-old nephew. Is somebody cutting onions in here?