Kind: Articles
Traditional long form content: a post with an explicit title and body.
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Oxford Geek Nights #52
Oxford Geek Night returned this week after an incredibly-long hiatus, and it was amazing.
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Finger Portal to WordPress Blog
Has anybody ever made a Finger-to-WordPress gateway before? No? Can you imagine why that might be?
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Counselling and Constellations
What do counselling and constellations have in common? They can both be about picking points and drawing lines between them.
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Wake Me Up When September Ends
Inspired by Hugh Rundle's post about Mastodon's imminent "Eternal September", Dan muses on what he can best do to help as the fediverse faces its biggest expansion surge yet.
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Bisect your Priority of Constituencies
Can you rank the priorities of an organisation or system you're part of? Dan challenges you to go one step further and bisect each rank.
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My First MP3
I ripped my first MP3 file back in 1995. Where could it be now? I'd recognise it if I found it!
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XPath Scraping with FreshRSS
The latest version of FreshRSS's killer feature is XPath scraping. Dan demonstrates how to use it.
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Covid Brain
After keeping it at bay for years, Dan finally catches Covid and it makes his brain go wonky.
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.well-known/links in WordPress
Dan implements a WordPress plugin to support Jim Nielsen's proposal for .well-known/links.
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Beating Children at Mastermind
Sick of losing Mastermind to his kids, Dan cheats by implementing a brute-force solver he can run on his phone.
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Dog; Person
He's not a "dog person", but Dan's learned to love one dog in particular.
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Milk and Mail Notifications with Flic 2 Buttons
Dan deploys Flic 2 "smart buttons" to remind him to read his post and bring the milk in.
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Bash+Batch In One File
A single file that can be executed in Bash, Zsh, Windows Command Prompt, and MS-DOS? Yup, and it's disgusting.
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Do What You're Bad At
Dan digs deep into why he's really bad at some things, and promises to do them more.
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Mathematics of Mid-Journey Refuelling
Dan uses the Secretary Problem to work out which filling station to pull over at for the cheapest fuel on a long journey.