Year: 2017
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How to find a wonderful idea
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
His nuclear research helped a judge determine that former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko had been assassinated – likely on Putin’s orders. Just months after the verdict, the scientist himself was found stabbed to death with two knives. Police deemed it a suicide, but US intelligence officials suspect it was murder...
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Found GLR8Y7C0 Road to Parrog
This checkin to GLR8Y7C0 Road to Parrog reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. An easy find while taking my nephew out for a morning walk in his pushchair. Poor little fella fell asleep before we got to the GZ, though, knocked out perhaps by this morning's early heat! Nice and …
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You will gain 50 Windows XP
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Found GLR8CM1D The Lone Singer
This checkin to GLR8CM1D The Lone Singer reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. AltDan with a geocache. AltDan with a geocache. A quick and easy find on a walk to the shops while visiting my partner's husband's grandmother (who lives just around the corner)! Lovely day for it!
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Sub-Pixel Problems in CSS
Something that jumped at me, recently, was a rendering dilemma that browsers have to encounter, and gracefully handle, on a day-by-day basis with little, to no, standardization.
Take the following page for example. You have 4 floated divs, each with a width of 25%, contained within a parent div of width 50px. Here’s the question: How … -
Why You Only Need to Test with 5 Users
Some people think that usability is very costly and complex and that user tests should be reserved for the rare web design project with a huge budget and a lavish time schedule. Not true. Elaborate usability tests are a waste of resources. The best results come from testing no more than 5 users and running …
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You Are Not Google Bradfield
Software engineers go crazy for the most ridiculous things. We like to think that we’re hyper-rational, but when we have to choose a technology, we end up in a kind of frenzy — bouncing from one person’s Hacker News comment to another’s blog post until, in a stupor, we float helplessly toward the brightest light and … -
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Theresa May to launch wide-ranging internet regulation and security changes despite not winning majority
Theresa May looks set to launch wide-ranging internet regulation and plans to fundamentally change how technology works despite not having won a majority.
In the speech in which she committed to keep governing despite calls to stand down, the prime minister made reference to extending powers for the security services. Those powers – which include regulation … -
Stones Under Yetzin
Dan's been running a roleplaying campaign for a few friends, and now that campaign's got it's own blog (not to mention a suite of companion apps, because... well, it's Dan).
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Digest for May 2017
Summary
This month I shared a story about how playing with our toddler forced upon me a new way of thinking about my grief over my dad's death and raved against AMP, Google's poisonous new Web-ish technology.
I reshared posts about rule-based password security validation and disallowing the pasting of passwords into forms. I also shared … -
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
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Playing Dead - Toddlers Gone Weird
At the request of a toddler, Dan spends an afternoon repeatedly re-enacting the circumstances of his father's death.
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Password Rules Are Bullshit
Of the many, many, many bad things about passwords, you know what the worst is? Password rules.
If we don't solve the password problem for users in my lifetime I am gonna haunt you from beyond the grave as a ghost pic.twitter.com/Tf9EnwgoZv
— Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) August 11, 2015
Let this pledge be duly …