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  • Adapted version of XKCD comic #927. Titled: How WP plugins proliferate (see: authentication, crossposting, galleries, etc.). Situation: there are 14 competing WordPress plugins. Engineers in conversation agree that 14 is ridiculous and commit to developing a unified plugin that covers everybody's use cases. Result: there are now 15 competing WordPress plugins.

    Almost nerdsniped myself when I discovered several #WordPress plugins that didn't quite do what I needed. Considered writing an overarching one to "solve" the problem. Then I remembered @xkcd comic 927...

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    • 6 comments
    • posted 26 May, 2022
  • First frame of "Story Time" comic from Channelate. An old man sits in an armchair and talks to two small children sitting on the floor in front of him. The old man says "I ever tel you squirts about the year 2020?"

    Story Time

    On his 40th birthday, Dan shares a comic about an old guy reminiscing about 2020. Hey, wait...

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    • Repost
    • posted 8 January, 2021
  • Having Kids In Our Poly Triad by Sara Valta title showing picture of two men and a woman hugging the outline of a baby

    Having Kids In Our Poly Triad by Sara Valta






    Sara’s back! You might remember a couple of years ago she’d shared with us a comic on her first year in a polyamory! We’re happy to have her back with a slice of life and a frank n’ real conversation about having kids in her Poly Triad relationship.

    This sort of wholesome loving chat is …

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    • Repost
    • posted 6 January, 2021
  • Image representing post: The Perfect Art Heist: Hack the Money, Leave the Painting

    The Perfect Art Heist: Hack the Money, Leave the Painting

    A comic telling the story of a John Constable painting targetted by thieves in 2018 for an unusual heist.

    Read more (175 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 17 July, 2020
  • Lucky Devil Eats

    Lucky Devil Eats

    Strip clubs in the US can't run during the lockdown, and aren't eligible for financial support. But one strip club found a clever workaround.

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    • posted 18 May, 2020
  • Comic, three panes. First pane shows derelict supermakets, caption: Scattered about, the putrefactive disease of the coronavirus lay slain. Second pane shows people celebrating, caption: Slain, after all men's devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, had created. Third frame shows the celebrating people in the shadow of a tripod war machine from War of the Worlds, caption: Martian fighting machines.

    Death Leaping from Man to Man

    Dan draws a topical comic.

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    • Comic
    • posted 25 March, 2020
  • Pineapple on pizza?! What is wrong with you?!

    Pineapple

    Channelate "gets" Dan and his love of pineapple on pizza.

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    • posted 24 March, 2020
  • Dan and Robin concluding a VR Escape Room.

    Difference Between VR and AR

    Dan's sister challenges him to define the difference between AR and VR, and Dan realises that he can't.

    Read more - about 4 minutes (816 words)

    • Article
    • 7 comments
    • posted 24 February, 2020
  • The Far Side comics in Dan's RSS reader.

    Subscribing to The Far Side (by RSS!)

    The Far Side is back, and (for the first time) it has a website and daily comics. But no RSS feed? Let's fix that...

    Read more - about 3 minutes (514 words)

    • Article
    • 16 comments
    • posted 8 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.

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    • posted 6 January, 2020
  • Comic: carollers sing "We wish you a Merry Christmas" three times, the genie from Disney's Aladdin looks on in shock.

    Three Wishes

    How many times can you wish somebody a Merry Christmas before you've used up all your wishes?

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    • posted 23 December, 2019
  • Perfect By K Lynn Smith

    Perfect By K Lynn Smith







    Oh Joy Sex Toy / K Lynn Smith
    Now that's a hot comic. NSFW, so don't click through if you're not in a place where you can do so!

    Also, RIP Flapjack. 😒

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 2 November, 2019
  • Forward Comic issue 100, frame 1

    Forward #100 - Gamification

    Forward Comic reaches strip #100!

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    • 2 comments
    • posted 19 September, 2019
  • LABS comic adapted to show The Robot literally "feeding" RSS

    LABS Comic RSS Archive

    For the benefit of anybody wanting to read LABS comic from the beginning in their RSS reader, Dan writes a tool to facilitate that.

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    • Article
    • 8 comments
    • posted 25 July, 2019
  • LABS comic 001 frame 1 - "Learn to Serve Food"

    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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    • 6 comments
    • posted 24 July, 2019

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