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Tag: sabbatical

  • Network diagram but with entities having faces and named Chungus, Atul, Summer, Gwen, Alice, Astrid, and Demmy.

    Bad Names for Servers

    Not for the first time, our eldest child has drawn me a network diagram. It's cute, but I've outright refused to name one of the new servers I'm provisioning after our dog. Here's why...

    Read more (367 words)

    • Article
    • posted 21 October, 2024
  • Day #2 of my sabbatical had a morning in which I've mostly been roped into some charity-related digital forensics... until I got distracted by dndle.app, which apparently I accidentally broke yesterday! Move Fast and Fix Things!

    Full image of Dan, looking concerned, in front of Github and Dndle.app.
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    Dan, looking concerned, in front of Github and Dndle.app.

    • Note
    • posted 20 October, 2024
  • Kicking off day #1 of my three-month sabbatical from work at a hotel in Reading, at a meeting with fellow Three Rings volunteers to discuss our organisational culture and values.

    Full image of Dan sits in front of two laptops (one of which shows a photo of an echidna for some reason), in a meeting room full of casually-dressed volunteers.
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    Dan sits in front of two laptops (one of which shows a photo of an echidna for some reason), in a meeting room full of casually-dressed volunteers.

    • Note
    • posted 19 October, 2024
  • Screenshot showing this blog post.

    Digital Dustbusting

    I've been doing a bit of tidying-up of the mess that is my personal Internet hosting. I've made a lot of progress, but the rest is probably going to have to wait until later in the year.

    Read more - about 5 minutes (1091 words)

    • Article
    • posted 2 October, 2024

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