Summary
This month I shared Oh Joy Sex Toy’s love of OMGYes and on the failure of Manchester’s bike-share scheme. I didn’t produce any original content of note.
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Digest for July 2017
Summary
This month I shared Tom Scott’s video about backdooring WhatsApp, the viral video of the brave Mormon tween coming-out to her congregation, and two (1, 2) excellent Oglaf comics. From a content-production perspective, I was in a bit of a dry spell.
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Digest for June 2017
Summary
This month I talked about a roleplaying campaign that I’d been running, found a geocache near our holiday accomodation, and shared research on user testing, subpixel rendering in CSS, and one of the first of what would ultimately turn out to be several plans Theresa May came up with by which to attempt to fuck everything up.
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Checkins
- Dan Q found GLR9ZJ3Z T’drath #4
- Dan Q found GLR9ZHJJ T’drath #5
- Dan Q found GLR8Y7C0 Road to Parrog *
- Dan Q found GLR8CM1D The Lone Singer
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- How to find a wonderful idea
- The Man Who Knew Too Much
- You will gain 50 Windows XP
- Sub-Pixel Problems in CSS *
- Why You Only Need to Test with 5 Users *
- You Are Not Google – Bradfield
- Trump Vs. Macron – Songify the News 15
- Theresa May to launch wide-ranging internet regulation and security changes despite not winning majority *
Digest for May 2017
Summary
This month I shared a story about how playing with our toddler forced upon me a new way of thinking about my grief over my dad’s death and raved against AMP, Google’s poisonous new Web-ish technology.
I reshared posts about rule-based password security validation and disallowing the pasting of passwords into forms. I also shared a magic-themed Channelate comic.
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- Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
- Password Rules Are Bullshit *
- You should’ve asked
- Is this your card?
- Safe now
- Voronoi Diagrams
- The FREQ Show: 00.02 The Unmanning of Trump
- Miniatur Wunderland – world’s largest model railway
- The Anti-Vaxx Vaccine
- Climate Change Was a Hoax!
- I’m Being Harassed
- Random Obsessions
- Let them paste passwords
Digest for April 2017
Summary
This month, I experimented with web technologies to which I’d been introduced at Render Conf, developed a websockets-and-orientation-sensor controlled game called Steer!, and looked back on the ways that I’m still affected by an abusive relationship that ended a decade and a half prior. I shared an XKCD comic.
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Articles
- The Long Tail of an Abusive Relationship *
- Steer! An Experimental Canvas/Websocket Game *
- Tomorrow’s Web, Today *
Checkins
- Dan Q found GLQR2CZT Stadium Arcadium
- Dan Q reported GC4DYXD Stadium Arcadium needs maintenance
- Dan Q found GLQQT32Y Islip Millenium Wood
- Dan Q found GLQQRWZK Collice Street Water Pump
- Dan Q couldn’t find GCZ51Y Eddie Confesses
- Dan Q found GLQP5J37 Best Kept Garden
- Dan Q found GLQP4RPJ Church Micro 9088 – Islip, St Nicholas
- Dan Q found GLQJY8NE keele TB HOTEL north
- Dan Q posted a note for GC2033H Heigh-Ho #5 – Doc
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Digest for March 2017
Summary
This month, I concluded an extended screenscraping and data-mining operation into what music local radio station Jack FM played, joined-in the JSOxford/Render Conf hack event, and shared SMBC‘s weird homage to Dilbert.
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Notes
- Thanks for an awesome hacknight last night @JSOxford + @render_conf…. hey… that’s me on the screen! #RenderConf https://t.co/wsoYCjMr3d
- Idea: @jmperezperez’s progressive images (a-la Medium) plus Service Worker to detect failures, sched. a retry. Who want to hack? #renderconf
- When you disable text selection or right-clicking you break text-to-speech systems and don’t protect content anyway. @ninjanails #renderconf
- The big question when evaluating technology shouldn’t be “how well does it work?” but “how well does it fail?”, says @adactio. #RenderConf
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Digest for February 2017
Summary
This month I got excited by the upcoming Gemini palmtop and by Not Dogs’ first bricks-and-mortar restaurant.
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Notes
- Remember the #psion? (y’know, the best palmtop ever built) @planetcom2017 building a true successor, the #gemini: https://t.co/SmJ9rPdnSj *
- #SausageSelfie at @notdogsUK’s new RESTAURANT at the Bullring in Birmingham. #vegetarian #joy https://t.co/RsZ9lc0uSs *
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Digest for January 2017
Summary
This month I shared things you can do with Chrome’s dev console and reasons Ruby remains great. I didn’t do much else online of note.
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