Category: Personal
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Rehabilitating Google AMP: My failed attempt
This article is a follow-up to my article “Why Google AMP is a threat to the Open Web”. In the comments of that article I promised I’d soon provide a follow-up, and for reasons I’ll get into, that has not been possible until now – but now I’m finally providing it.
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#youbroketheinternet So We Got Tracked Anyway
Did you install EFF's brilliant Privacy Badger or any other smart HTTP Cookie management tool? Or did you simply pick the privacy preference in your browser that ignores all third-party cookies? Did many websites you visit annoy you with permission-to-use-cookies pop-ups because of European legislation?
Guess what, it's all been useless.
Hamburg university researchers … -
SHE BON : Sensing the Sensual
ROBOHEMIAN! [YouTube]
I don't know if this is genius or insanity, but either way it's pretty remarkable. Lost my shit at "pop girl". Lost it again at "I can poke the nipple".
It takes a true engineer to think to themselves, "Hey, I wonder if I could use technology to tell me when I'm feeling … -
CSS Border-Radius Can Do That? | IO 9elements
TL/DR: When you use eight values specifying border-radius in CSS, you can create organic looking shapes. WOW. No time to read it all ?— we made a visual tool for you. Find it here.
Introduction
During this year’s Frontend Conference Zurich Rachel Andrew talked about Unlocking the Power of CSS Grid Layout. At the end … -
How Few Votes Can Win a UK General Election?
What's the minimum number of votes a party can get and still win a UK general election? Let's try to find an answer...
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JACOB PRETENDS TO BE STRAIGHT... | The Trueman Show! Ep 13
Fratocrats
The Fratocrats at their funniest. -
Letter of Recommendation: Escape Rooms
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Think of all the ways you already insert pleasurable, circumscribed bursts of risk into your life. Maybe you watch horror movies, consume hot sauce, jaywalk. Maybe you pursue casual sex or steal Splenda packets from Starbucks or treat the speed limit as a cute suggestion. An escape game is like stacking these things atop one … -
Performed maintenance for GC7R0HB The Fairy Elevator
This checkin to GC7R0HB The Fairy Elevator reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Sorry it took me so long to get out here to check up on this cache; geocaching.com started disbelieving that my email address was valid and stopped sending me watchlist notifications for a while! Looks like the …
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Notes from #musetech18 presentations (with a strong "collaboration" theme). Note that these are "live notes" first-and-foremost for my own use and so are probably full of typos. Sorry.
Matt Locke (StoryThings, @matlocke):
Over the last 100 years, proportional total advertising revenue has been stolen from newspapers by radio, then television: scheduled media that is experienced simultaneously. … -
Found GC34XPT Northumberland Avenue
This checkin to GC34XPT Northumberland Avenue reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Quick find with a coworker on a lunch break from an event at the National Gallery. TFTC!
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Found GC7B73B Virtual Reward : The Fourth Plinth
This checkin to GC7B73B Virtual Reward : The Fourth Plinth reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. An easy find while grabbing the (much harder, in account of muggles!) physical cache nearby. Message to CO to follow. TFTC!
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Found GC5A7DW Trafalgar Square
This checkin to GC5A7DW Trafalgar Square reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Fantastic hide! Stood around looking at my phone for a bit while some pot-smoking workmen nearby eyed me suspiciously, but eventually they moved away and I had a moment to retrieve the cache. Glad I came first thing …
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Now that Google+ has been shuttered, I should air my dirty laundry...
Now that Google+ has been shuttered, I should air my dirty laundry on how awful the project and exec team was.
I'm still pissed about the bait and switch they pulled by telling me I'd be working on Chrome, then putting me on this god forsaken piece of shit on day one.
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Mystery Pipe
There's a strange pipe on this steam locomotive. Can you guess what it's for?
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Found OK0300 M-libs12L
This checkin to OK0300 M-libs12L reflects an opencache.uk log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Barely a stone's throw from my last waypoint: I'm spending more time getting selfies than I am walking about! TFTC.