Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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Forward #100 - Gamification
Forward Comic reaches strip #100!
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Which Face is Real?
Play an online game to learn to differentiate real from "deepfake"-style photos. With comments from Dan.
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Impossible Geometry
Rapping about video games is one thing. Rapping about music/beatmatching video games takes this to a whole new level.
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I Wrote a Song Using Only Hate Comments
Some people fight their haters. Some people ignore their haters. Madilyn Bailey goes one step further and uses hate comments as the lyrics to a song.
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Proposal to allow specifying a text snippet in a URL fragment
Chrome's implemented an experimental feature to allow deeplinking to arbitrary text content, which is awesome (with Dan's comments).
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Watch UK's Natural Land Diminish in 100 Seconds
If the different land uses of the UK were divided up into their percentage-ratio blocks, what would a 100-second tour of the country (with each second covering a single percent of the land usage) look like?
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When Experienced Women Engineers Look for New Jobs, They Prioritize Trust and Growth
Excellent research courtesy of my soon-to-be new employer about the driving factors affecting women who are experienced software engineers.
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"One of the best things about working at The Bodleian... Pretending to be a PhD student..."
Dan's boss posted pictures to her LinkedIn of her pretending to be a PhD student, so Dan shares the ones he was in (and some social media featuring his kids).
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The Real Dark Web
An analogy between dark matter and the huge crowd of web developers who are using such "boring" technology stacks.
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Passport Photos
Passport photo rules make self-expression impossible. Or do they?
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The family that shrank France
Another video from the Map Men, this time about the Cassini map of France and its legacy on contemporary cartography, presented in their usual hilarious style.
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Ancient Roman 'Pen' Was a Joke Souvenir
The tradition of buying cheap, joke souvenirs for your loved ones while travelling dates back at least two millennia.
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LABS
If you like a webcomic to finish its run before you start reading it: LABS finished today. Go read it.
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Bus Station, Unbound
After five months of playing it, on-and-off, Dan finally gets around to reviewing Bus Station: Unbound, a piece of hypertext interactive fiction set in Preston Bus Station.
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Endless Quadrum #50
Dan can't get enough of this Rimworldme comic.