Note #16070

What’s wrong with my password, @PostOffice? Is it too secure for you?
It does nothing to fix your “old-fashioned” image that your password policy is still stuck in the 1990s. @PWTooStrong

Post Office account signup form showing error message: "Password too long, max 12 characters"

Note #16055

That moment when you realise, to your immense surprise, that the research you’ve spent most of the year on might actually demonstrate the thing you set out to test after all. 😲
Screw you, null hypothesis.

Spreadsheet showing correlation the intersection of two variables.

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Note #16045

Who’d have thought that my onboarding fortnight at @WooCommerce / @Automattic would conclude with a very literal “on-boarding”. Hang five! 🏄🏼‍♂️

Dan and other members of his team head out into the sea with surfboards (animated GIF).

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Note #16042

Well, Cape Town, you were a blast. But now it’s time to get back to my normal life for a bit.

🇿🇦✈️🇩🇪✈️🇬🇧

Note #16037

Seconds after I took this “penguin selfie”, a third penguin snuck up behind me and bit me on the arse. 🇿🇦🐧😧

Dan with a pair of African penguins

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Note #16034

I now have no doubt that from the summit of Table Mountain is an absolutely unparalleled place from which to watch the sunset. 🇿🇦🌅😍

Dan sitting on a rock on Table Mountain, Cape Town, with a sunset in the background

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Note #16013

Making magic happen alongside my new @WooCommerce Team Alpha buds in sunny Cape Town. 🇿🇦

Team Alpha in Cape Town

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Note #15464

Arrived early for @indiewebcamp #oxford at @oxonlibraries. @garrettc still filling up on coffee.

Makerspace at Oxford Library

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Note #15247

Prior to the invention of nose-picking by Dr. Edwin Snotter in 1893, a variety of less-effective techniques for the removal of dried nasal mucus were widely practised.

Aus Artikel von H. Coupin (Different ways of whistling with the fingers), Le Monde 1983

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Note #15167

Can we fix it it? Yes we can! Yet more unusual work by the @BodleianLibs web/digital team (featuring @olearyalice).

Natalie and Alice at work.

 

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Note #15151

These three explanations collectively describe quite well what @3RingsCIC and I are doing at @FairlawnsHotel today. 😊

Do Not Disturb sign with reasons: Sleeping, Working, Saving the World.

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Note #15043

My hardware engineering is a little rusty, @ComputerHistory, but wouldn’t signals propogate along this copper cable at “only” somewhere between 0.64c and 0.95c, not 1c as you claim?

Exhibit of early transatlantic telegraph cable with message implying that it enabled "speed of light" communications.

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Note #14992

Just accepted @Facebook’s new cookie policy. 😋 @USENIXSecurity #usesec19

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