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Tag: devcamp

  • A small wood fire burns inside an outdoor brick pizza oven.

    Wood-Fired

    This year's 3Camp venue had a wood-fired pizza oven, so I signed-up for a shift of cooking for my fellow volunteers and thoroughly enjoyed making and baking a monumental amount of dough.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (615 words)

    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 2 April, 2026
  • I'm off for a week of full-time volunteering with Three Rings at 3Camp, our annual volunteer hack week: bringing together our distributed team for some intensive in-person time, working to make life better for charities around the world.

    And if there's one good thing to come out of me being suddenly and unexpectedly laid-off two days ago, it's that I've got a shiny new laptop to do my voluntary work on (Automattic have said that I can keep it).

    Full image of Black Macbook Pro whose screen shows a locally-hosted copy of the Three Rings web application, overlaid with a terminal running lazygit.
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    Black Macbook Pro whose screen shows a locally-hosted copy of the Three Rings web application, overlaid with a terminal running lazygit.

    • Note
    • posted 4 April, 2025
  • Dan and Jacob look at a piece of code together; Dan is smiling but Jacob looks disgusted.

    Wonder Syndrome

    Ruth writes about "Wonder Syndrome" as a counterpoint to "imposter syndrome", an Dan reflects on how and why he's adopting the term too.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (694 words)

    • Article
    • 4 comments
    • posted 19 April, 2022
  • Ben Foxall at Render Conf 2017 discusses the accompanying JSOxford Hackathon.

    Tomorrow's Web, Today

    Feeling optimistic about the technical future of the Web, Dan finds the opportunity to hack about with some promising new tools: Intersection Observers, Web Workers, Blobs, and the Fetch API.

    Read more - about 5 minutes (1070 words)

    • Article
    • 4 comments
    • posted 19 April, 2017
  • Image representing post: DevCamp - have we really been doing this for 7 years?

    DevCamp - have we really been doing this for 7 years?

    For the last seven years, Dan's been attending Three Rings' annual DevCamp, a week-long hackathon especially for volunteers on Three Rings' Dev Team. And he's only now gotten around to writing about how awesome it is.

    Read more - about 4 minutes (787 words)

    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 11 April, 2016

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