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

    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

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    • 6 comments
    • posted 18 November, 2019
  • Spreadsheet showing correlation the intersection of two variables.

    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.

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    • Note
    • posted 9 November, 2019
  • Image representing post: Note #16045

    Who'd have thought that my onboarding fortnight at @WooCommerce / @Automattic would conclude with a very literal "on-boarding". Hang five! πŸ„πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ

    Read more - about 1 minutes (19 words)

    • Note
    • 3 comments
    • posted 7 November, 2019
  • Well, Cape Town, you were a blast. But now it's time to get back to my normal life for a bit.

    πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦βœˆοΈπŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺβœˆοΈπŸ‡¬πŸ‡§

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 5 November, 2019
  • Dan with a pair of African penguins

    Seconds after I took this "penguin selfie", a third penguin snuck up behind me and bit me on the arse. πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦πŸ§πŸ˜§

    Read more - about 1 minutes (20 words)

    • Note
    • 14 comments
    • posted 3 November, 2019
  • Dan sitting on a rock on Table Mountain, Cape Town, with a sunset in the background

    I now have no doubt that from the summit of Table Mountain is an absolutely unparalleled place from which to watch the sunset. πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦πŸŒ…πŸ˜

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    • 16 comments
    • posted 3 November, 2019
  • Team Alpha in Cape Town

    Making magic happen alongside my new @WooCommerce Team Alpha buds in sunny Cape Town. πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦

    Read more - about 1 minutes (14 words)

    • Note
    • 2 comments
    • posted 30 October, 2019
  • Off to Cape Town. Don't wait up! ✈️ πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦

    Read more - about 1 minutes (7 words)

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    • 5 comments
    • posted 28 October, 2019
  • Makerspace at Oxford Library

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

    Read more - about 1 minutes (13 words)

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    • 5 comments
    • posted 28 September, 2019
  • Aus Artikel von H. Coupin (Different ways of whistling with the fingers), Le Monde 1983

    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.

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 10 September, 2019
  • Natalie and Alice at work.

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



     

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    • posted 6 September, 2019
  • Do Not Disturb sign with reasons: Sleeping, Working, Saving the World.

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

    Read more - about 1 minutes (16 words)

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 1 September, 2019
  • Exhibit of early transatlantic telegraph cable with message implying that it enabled "speed of light" communications.

    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?

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    • posted 18 August, 2019
  • Facebook cookies

    Just accepted @Facebook's new cookie policy. πŸ˜‹ @USENIXSecurity #usesec19

    Read more - about 1 minutes (8 words)

    • Note
    • 4 comments
    • posted 15 August, 2019
  • Norwegian Air Boing 787-9 Dreamliner

    My last 36 hours: riding, flying, meeting, queuing, driving, drinking, sleeping...

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    • 3 comments
    • posted 14 August, 2019

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