Category: Personal
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Found GC7A2Q0 4. Placket Pathway
This checkin to GC7A2Q0 4. Placket Pathway reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Nice to see a proper-sized cache container (although I did have to evict an earwig from it)! FP for that, and thanks for both this and the series. Greetings from Oxford!
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Found GC7A2PJ 3. Placket Pathway
This checkin to GC7A2PJ 3. Placket Pathway reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A bit of to-and-fro to get a fix but then the cache was soon in my hand. Nettles are fierce today! TFTC.
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Found GC7A2PB 2. Placket Pathway
This checkin to GC7A2PB 2. Placket Pathway reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Wish I'd brought my GPSr; didn't expect to be caching today so I'm running off my phone and it doesn't do as good a job once close to GZ. Found this in the end, but as others …
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Found GC7A2NK 1. Placket Pathway
This checkin to GC7A2NK 1. Placket Pathway reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. After a garden party next door last night I think I was first to wake up this morning as the sun shone through my tent. I was literally just sleeping in the field adjoining, not a hundred …
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Reply to: A modern font loading strategy with the vanilla JS FontFaceSet.load() method
Chris Ferdinandi's suggestion of using FontFaceSet.load() to prevent FOIT seems overkill. What's wrong with font-display: swap;?
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In the remote chance that @Facebook's #LibraCoin takes off, I suggest that the appropriate slang term for the currency shall be zucks. As in: "I'll bet you a hundred zucks that this new #cryptocurrency will be barely more-successful than Dogecoin, and far less-cute."
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£20 for a boiled egg, one piece of toast and a mug of tea?
A Twitter thread about one man's experience of a London cafe where he made his own boiled egg and soldiers and paid £20... and why that's great.
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Remember NonStopHammerTi.me? By order of the Queen, Dan will Remain committed to an idea.
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Dan receives an unexpected Fathers' Day card because his eldest (to whom he's "Uncle Dan") decided he deserved one too.
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Dan's employer recently ran a staff survey which produced many interesting results, but he got a warm fuzzy feeling from one in particular.
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The problem with single page apps
Chris Ferdinandi shares his concerns about SPAs, and I echo with my own.
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Visit the Ashmolean Museum
Keep an eye out for our youngest (and, briefly, me!) in this promotional video just released by the Ashmolean Museum.
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Look After Lorcán
Dan's friend Jen's two-year-old son Lorcán suffers from cystic fibrosis, and can't get the medicine he needs. Can you help?
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Berlin 8:00 a.m.
A great (interactive) demonstration of how and why phantom traffic jams occur: why some people wanting to drive faster can result in EVERYBODY having to drive slower!
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How to Draw a Horse
Dan reshares a comic about... drawing horses? Is that it? Really?