Tag: digest
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Digest for November 2018
Summary
This month I reimplemented arcade classic Pong for its 46th birthday/World Digital Preservation Day (note 1, note 2) and set it up to play on a 15-screen videowall at the Weston Library in Oxford.
I also shared thoughts on why web developers should use CSS before adding JS, an explanation of the history of the … -
Digest for October 2018
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This month saw me share the Story of Scgary: how my childhood friend Gary and our various adventures together had become part of the mythology of roleplay scenarios used in the training of helpline volunteers at Aberystwyth Nightline.
I also shared news of a piece of interactive fiction produced for Halloween by my team at … -
Digest for September 2018
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This month's blog activity was mostly dominated by 360° photos taken with my new camera, e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. I also had to archive two geocaches, Oxford's Wild Wolf One and Two, as they'd been getting muggled/vandalised. I also shared a fabulous reinterpretation of Who's On First? for the post-post-modern society.
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Digest for August 2018
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This month, I shared photos of a mystery box I discovered in a meeting room at work which turned out to be an adapter to a proprietary kind of 13A plug socket and developed a software tool which pixel-scrapes open mapping data to estimate what percentage of a given graticule (degree of latitude by … -
Digest for July 2018
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In July 2018, I did a little geocaching and shared an awesome Pride GIF and an old advert.
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Checkins
Dan Q found GLWG7T19 Blind-House Lacock Revisited *
Dan Q performed maintenance for GC7R0HB The Fairy Elevator
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Digest for June 2018
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This month I attended The Lead Developer conference and used my lunch break (and my journey back to the station) to find a reasonable number of central London geocaches, as listed below. I also reshared an announcement by Garrett Coakley that IndieWeb Oxford was to go ahead in September.
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Digest for May 2018
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This month I completed my research into Oxford's (former) zoo and I hid a series of geocaches to commemorate it and the wolves that escaped from it once, in the 1930s. I also toured a series of geocaches near Eynsham (listed below) while collecting 'caching supplies from the military surplus store there.
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Digest for April 2018
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This month I produced almost no original content, but I shared a number of interesting content from elsewhere around the web, including an explanation of the power of compound interest (and why saving for a pension early is often more-important than saving lots), a curious poem, and a short film about what would happen … -
Digest for March 2018
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This month I reminisced about that time Paul made and ate a Birmingham Egg (with help from Jon) and used doing so as a comment on Web siloisation and how it may be reducing diversity of "weird" content online. I also contemplated what recent observations about neural nets might mean for our understanding of … -
Digest for February 2018
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This month I developed a workaround to WordPress/Jetpack's (terrible) CAPTCHA, replaced "love" with "butt" in song lyrics (snortle), and argued with a pension provider that I shouldn't need a doctor's letter to justify changing my gender on their website from "not provided" to "not specified" because that isn't actually a change of gender identity, … -
Digest for January 2018
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This month, I looked-back at Troma Night XXI, 14 years prior, and the impact it'd ultimately have on the future of my circle of friends. I visited Wakefield Samaritans, shared thoughts about the realisation that "early programmers" are learning to code later this generation than the last and that the nature of Internet memes has … -
Digest for December 2017
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This month, I mocked Ruth in comic form after she slipped on black ice, criticised the popular emoji representation of "juggler", and received a Christmas present from Three Rings' long-time hosting provider, Bytemark.
I shared - among other things - a sarcastic dialogue about the state of Javascript frameworks and the landscape's impenetrability to beginners, … -
Digest for November 2017
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This month I attended a festive breadmaking workshop and I wrote about how I discovered that a Turkish university's libraries stole the website of the University of Oxford's and confronted them about it. I shared Elena Filatova's latest video of her explorations of the Chernobyl exclusion zone, an article on the strange appeal of … -
Digest for October 2017
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This month I hunted for a few geocaches (1, 2, 3) and complained that Yodel let people queue on their (premium rate) phone line even when they're closed.
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Checkins
Dan Q found GLTG6AWT Patchy the Pirate *
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Digest for September 2017
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This month I advised people of a well-known but oft-forgotten trick to avoid spam to your GMail account by using a plus-sign and some arbitrary text (or the name of the company you're dealing with) in your email address, and shared with minimal interpretation a web app I'd developed: fnorders.com. I also made my …