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Kind: Reposts

Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.

  • Image representing post: New browser on the block: Flow

    New browser on the block: Flow

    QuirksMode reports that a new browser engine is on the horizon, and Dan is amazingly surprised.

    Read more (265 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 23 January, 2020
  • CSS4 is here!

    Peter-Paul Koch of QuirksMode proposes that CSS4 should be declared a "thing", for marketing reasons, and Dan agrees.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (549 words)

    • Repost
    • 7 comments
    • posted 23 January, 2020
  • Image representing post: Reinventing Git interface

    Reinventing Git interface

    Nikita Prokopov proposes a series of changes to Git that would "fix" its warts without breaking backwards compatibility, and they're brilliant.

    Read more (181 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 20 January, 2020
  • I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter

    Not what you're expecting. An unusual but interesting short story at the intersection between science fiction and... gender identity?

    Read more (232 words)

    • Repost
    • 1 comment
    • posted 16 January, 2020
  • Image representing post: Parent-child play: It's constant and exhausting, but is there a better way?

    Parent-child play: It's constant and exhausting, but is there a better way?

    Dan muses on a Slate article about the challenges of being your child's playmate.

    Read more (469 words)

    • Repost
    • 1 comment
    • posted 13 January, 2020
  • Image representing post: Running Code Over Time

    Running Code Over Time

    Eric Meyer finds a long-standing bug in his aging personal website, and Dan uses it as an excuse for yet another rant about Web standards and longevity.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (578 words)

    • Repost
    • 1 comment
    • posted 9 January, 2020
  • Image representing post: Which emoji scissors close?

    Which emoji scissors close?

    Dan's watched cheeseburgers and complained about jugglers, but it took until wh0 pointed it out that he saw how broken scissors are. In emoji, that is.

    Read more (169 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 8 January, 2020
  • Popcorn

    A 13-second short film/art project about making just one piece of popcorn.

    Read more - about 1 minutes (11 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 7 January, 2020
  • Graph showing that recent events matter a lot, but rapidly tail off for a while before levelling out again as they become long-ago events.

    It's 2020 and you're in the future

    Wait But Why produces another one of those lists of things that are now closer to some-other-event than today, and Dan passes comment on their process.

    Read more (325 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 6 January, 2020
  • Image representing post: Fix your PC with a crystal pendulum

    Fix your PC with a crystal pendulum

    Uploaded to YouTube 11 years ago, in what now feels like an earlier era, this old classic still makes me smile every time.

    Read more (24 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 5 January, 2020
  • Image representing post: The Legend of the Homicidal Fire-Proof Salamander

    The Legend of the Homicidal Fire-Proof Salamander

    Wired wrote an article about the mythology surrounding salamanders, and it reminds Dan of other animal myths.

    Read more (400 words)

    • Repost
    • 1 comment
    • posted 4 January, 2020
  • This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web

    Dan looks at what Jeff Huang's manifesto means for him individually as a blogger.

    Read more (439 words)

    • Repost
    • 2 comments
    • posted 3 January, 2020
  • Image representing post: I ignored warnings from friends and family not to marry my husband

    I ignored warnings from friends and family not to marry my husband

    A surprisingly uplifting story from the Washington Post.

    Read more (222 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 2 January, 2020
  • Film : Star Wars IX : The Rise of Skywalker

    Andrew Stephens' opinion of The Rise of Skywalker very-closely echoes Dan's.

    Read more (41 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 1 January, 2020
  • Image representing post: When you're in the club and you're hungry... (Misheard Lyrics… Round Two!)

    When you're in the club and you're hungry... (Misheard Lyrics… Round Two!)

    Bec Hill's hearing food in her music again. Funny.

    Read more (150 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 26 December, 2019

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