Tag: geeky
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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.
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Raspberry Pi VPN Hotspot (or How To Infuriate Theresa May For Under £40)
For a small sum of money and a little time, you too can have a little box that encrypts everything on your WiFi network until it leaves the UK.
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Twee2 - Interactive Fiction Authoring for Geeks
To the complete lack of surprise of anybody who knows him, Dan found a single tiny flaw in a piece of software, and reacted by reimplementing that software from scratch. Twee2 is his attempt to make it possible for people to write Twine 2-style interactive fiction from a command-line interface.
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Post-It Minesweeper
Dan implements a computer program to help him make a Post-It-based version of a computer program. Then sticks it to a computer.
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The Hardest Hangman
What's the hardest possible word to guess in Hangman? Many have wondered, but Dan felt the need to find out for sure.
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Visual Cryptography
How to create perfect secret messages that can be decoded using just your eyes.
DataGenetics -
Phone Security == Computer Security
Dan gets paranoid and despairs about the ease with which mobile devices can be stolen, the wealth of personal information stored on them, and the under-use of readily-available encryption tools.
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Craziest Internet Explorer Bug Ever?
Dan discovers a crazy little bug in Internet Explorer 8 and below, and complains loudly about it. Bloody IE.
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Visitor Tracking Without Cookies (or How To Abuse HTTP 301s)
A technique for abusing HTTP 301 redirects and random numbers to uniquely track users; even those who have cookies disabled in their web browsers.
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Moving Things Around With CSS Transitions
The "pop-up head" in the top-left hand corner of the page is powered entirely by CSS: no Javascript is used at all. Dan explains how.
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HDMI Virus, or How I Became An Old Person
HDMI cables are over-marketed at the best of times. But Dan's just discovered one that goes one step further, claiming to do the fundamentally impossible. And then, like an old person, he writes an irate letter.
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On This Day In 2011
As part of the On This Day series, Dan looks back over the last year that he's been running FreeDeedPoll.org.uk, a service that makes it easy and painless for British citizens to change their name (and have that name legally-recognised)
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New Computer #2 - Dana
Dana is the second of the two new computers Dan's acquired this month. She's tiny, reasonably-powerful, and uses almost no electricity.
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New Computer #1 - Tiffany2
This weekend, Dan built a new computer - Tiffany2 - to replace his aging media centre box.
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Goodbye Reader
After Google apply an ugly-as-sin new style and break some of his favourite features, Dan finally gives up on Google Reader and sets himself up on Tiny Tiny RSS instead.