[Checkin] Dan Q performed maintenance for GC86MHH Top of the Footpath
This checkin to GC86MHH Top of the Footpath reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. After receiving a confusing message about the logbook being missing, came out to check on...
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[Repost] I Staked Out My Local Dominos to See Just How Accurate Its Pizza...
It wasn’t that long ago that I stumbled across a piece in The Atlantic about how TurboTax uses bogus progress bars when completing a tax return. Since reading this, I got to thinking about the most...
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#TodayILearned that if you get a perfect 100-100-100-100 + #PWA score from @Google‘s site performance/accessibility/best practice/SEO tool “@____lighthouse” then you’re treated to an animated...
View Article[Repost] Imogen Heap: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
NPR Music (YouTube) In the second half of this video (directly linked), Imogen Heap demonstrates how she uses her Mi.Mu gloves as an expressive music manipulation tool, and then goes on to sing the...
View Article[Repost] Metropoloid: A Metropolis Remix
Yaz Minksy (YouTube) Yaz writes, by way of partial explanation: You could fit almost the entire history of videogames into the time span covered by the silent film era, yet we consider it a mature...
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[Repost] How a video game community filled my nephew’s final days with joy
My nephew, Michael, died on 22 May 2019. He was 15 years old. He loved his family, tractors, lorries, tanks, spaceships and video games (mostly about tractors, lorries, tanks and spaceships), and...
View Article[Repost] Pure Fourier series animations for 12 oddly satisfying minutes
3Blue1Brown (YouTube) Well that’s deeply satisfying to watch. For more of the background leading up to this point, see the prior video But what is a Fourier series? and possibly others too.
View Article[Repost] Stellar Rescue
The AA (YouTube) Well, now I know who to call if it’s cold outside and there’s no kind of atmosphere.
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[Article] DanQ.me Ecosystem
With IndieWebCamp Oxford 2019 scheduled to take place during the Summer of Hacks, I drew a diagram (click to embiggen) of the current ecosystem that powers and propogates the content on DanQ.me. It’s...
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On this day 50 years ago launched the first mission to take people to the moon. As part of #GlobalRocketLaunch day the 5-year-old and I fired off stomp rockets and learned about the science and...
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Instructed a 5 year-old in diagnosing and replacing a blown PSU in her mother’s computer.
View Article[Repost] JavaScript frameworks are better for accessibility (and other myths)
The other day, I saw someone on Twitter say (I’m not linking to the original tweet because I don’t want to pile-on the author): I don’t bother with frameworks, I just use vanilla JS. Roughly...
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[Article] Shifting into Automattic
In October of this year – after eight years, six months, and five days with the Bodleian Libraries – I’ll be leaving for pastures new. Owing to a combination of my current work schedule, holidays,...
View Article[Checkin] Dan Q performed maintenance for GC7Q96B Oxford’s Long-Lost Zoo
This checkin to GC7Q96B Oxford's Long-Lost Zoo reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Dropped by following TomTrxsh’s log implying there was a problem with the cache...
View Article[Repost] Darkroom Printing
One of the benefits of being in a camera club full of largely retired people who were all into photography long before digital was ever a thing, is that lots of them have old film, paper and gear...
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[Repost] How the Knights Hospitaller ‘accidentally’ became a major European...
Sod Pepsi’s navy. Let’s talk about the point after WW2 where the Knights Hospitaller, of medieval crusading fame, ‘accidentally’ became a major European air power. I shitteth ye not. ?️?️ So, if I...
View Article[Repost] Browsers are pretty good at loading pages, it turns out
The <a> tag is one of the most important building blocks of the Internet. It lets you create a hyperlink: a piece of text, usually colored blue, that you can use to go to a new page. When you...
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[Repost] Endless Quadrum #50
SrGrafo (Rimworldme) I can’t get enough of this comic. Despite the fact that it’s got no written dialogue at all I must’ve read it half a dozen times and seen more in it each time. Go read the whole...
View Article[Review] Review of Three
This review of Three originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. Three, Unit 234 234 The Westgate, Oxford OX1 1PE, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
View Article[Repost] Bus Station, Unbound
Back in February my friend Katie shared with me an already four-year-old piece of interactive fiction, Bus Station: Unbound, that I’d somehow managed to miss the first time around. In the five months...
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[Repost] LABS
LABS After three and a half years, webcomic LABS today came to an end. For those among you who like to wait until a webcomic has finished its run before you start to read it (you know who you are),...
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[Article] LABS Comic RSS Archive
Yesterday I recommended that you go read Aaron Uglum‘s webcomic LABS which had just completed its final strip. I’m a big fan of “completed” webcomics – they feel binge-able in the same way as a...
View Article[Checkin] Dan Q found GC2VEH2 I’m Getting Married in the Morning(Genealogy Link)
This checkin to GC2VEH2 I'm Getting Married in the Morning(Genealogy Link) reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found on a quick after dinner stroll with my mother from...
View Article[Checkin] Dan Q reported GC2VEH2 I’m Getting Married in the Morning(Genealogy...
This checkin to GC2VEH2 I'm Getting Married in the Morning(Genealogy Link) reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Container cracked and log soaked, effectively unusable....
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Heading back by train from a holiday in Derbyshire with @bornvulcan, @Crusty_Twobags, @fleeblewidget, @TheGodzillaGirl, @LadyJemma_, @Andrewsean85, and others. This trip must have been under some kind...
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