Kind: Articles
Traditional long form content: a post with an explicit title and body.
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New Blood Donation Rules Better, I Suppose
The rules for NHS blood donation have changed to be more-inclusive, especially of men who have sex with men. But the collateral damage is that Dan's partner now CAN'T give blood!
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COVID Ipsum
Using random text generator tool perchance, Dan produces a COVID conspiracy theory themed lorem ipsum text generator.
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Staying Sane with GEMSAW
Dan shares GEMSAW, the mnemonic acronym behind his self-care routine during these challenging times.
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Watching Films Together... Apart
This weekend, Dan hosted a film night for his friends via the magic of the Internet. Here's how he made it work.
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Endpoint Encabulator
Dan shares his latest digital project, the Endpoint Encabulator, with an explanatory video.
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<blink> and <marquee>
Dan explores the history of two (much-maligned) HTML tags of the yesterweb. With blinking marquees!
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Accidental Geohashing
Dan mines his own geoposition data of the last decade to ask: did I ever accidentally visit a geohashpoint? Turns out... maybe. Ish.
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Automattic Retrospective (days 207 to 334)
The fourth in Dan's series of blog posts about his experience of working at Automattic comes as he approaches the end of his first year with the company.
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Displaying ProtonMail Encryption Status in Thunderbird
Dan releases his first Thunderbird plugin, for improving integration with ProtonMail Bridge.
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Tiled Slackmoji
Dan suggests a creative/stupid way to abuse Slack custom emoji.
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AI as an Author
Dan shares some of his favourite stories from the world of natural language artificial intelligence.
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Firefox Daylight Makes Me Sad
Firefox Daylight broke Dan's mobile web browsing experience badly enough that he switched to Fennec F-Droid.
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Loading CSS Asynchronously Without JS Dependency
Dan proposes a new technique for lazy-loading CSS which doesn't break style for non-JS users.
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Building a Playframe (Timelapse Video)
Dan builds play equipment for the kids and shares a timelapse video of the process.
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Syncthing
This month, Dan's in love with Syncthing, software that keeps his household's data where it needs to be.