Tag: geeky
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Logitech MX Master 2S
Dan gets a new mouse, finally supplanting the "best mouse in the world" he declared over eight years ago.
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The "Backendification" of Frontend Development
https://hackernoon.com/the-backendification-of-frontend-development-62f218a773d4 (hackernoon.com)
Asynchronous JavaScript in the form of Single Page Applications (SPA) offer an incredible opportunity for improving the user experience of your web applications. CSS frameworks like Bootstrap enable developers to quickly contribute styling as they’re working on the structure and behaviour of things.
Unfortunately, SPA and CSS frameworks tend to result … -
Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played The Game
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Human beings leave physical impressions upon the things they love and use just as much as their do upon the lives of people and the planet they live upon. For every action, there’s a reaction. For every pressure, there’s an affect on mass and volume. And in the impressions left by that combination, particularly if … -
Debugging WorldWideWeb
His Geek Flag held high, Dan proposes a minor bugfix to some software that almost nobody cares about.
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CSS-driven console graphics
There's an Easter egg in danq.me which you can see in your browser's debug console.
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@adactio: The ampersand in https://adactio.com/notes/14395 isn't being properly escaped in your RSS feed...
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The Mystery Button-Box
Dan finds another bit of mystery hardware, and scares some head-scratcher photos.
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The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech
John Gordon: The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (urbigenous.net) Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen.
There comes a time when people at a technical conference like this need something more relaxing. A change of pace. A shift of style. To put aside all that work stuff and think of something refreshingly different.
So let's talk about coding … -
GIF MD5 hashquine
GIF MD5 hashquine - Rogdham (rogdham.net) TL;DR: Quick access to GIF MD5 hasquine ressources:
the first GIF MD5 hashquine, created by spq (mirror)
my hashquine and the source code to create it
Introduction
A few days ago, Ange Albertini retweteed an tweet from 2013 asking for a document that shows its … -
The Mystery Cable
Dan found a mystery cable in his attic and has no idea what it is or what it does. Can you help, before it drives him mad?
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Lunar Lander
Back in 1997 Dan made a "Lunar Lander" game in Turbo Pascal. Twenty years on, he's re-implemented it in Javascript.
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git poem
Altgit poem
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Steer! An Experimental Canvas/Websocket Game
Left alone to look after a conference stand, Dan implements a browser-based video game prototype called Steer! in which the player uses their mobile phone to control a speeding car.
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What Does Jack FM Sound Like?
Does Jack FM, Dan's favourite local radio station, always play the same old stuff? Let's find out with the help of some data mining...
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The Queen of Code
https://i.imgur.com/fuDDhdL.jpg