Year: 2017
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Found GLQQT32Y Islip Millenium Wood
This checkin to GLQQT32Y Islip Millenium Wood reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. After a lovely walk up from the pump at GC6PDXP, my 3 y/o geocaching buddy and I found this lovely cache with no difficulty. Could easily justify a larger container here!
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Found GLQQRWZK Collice Street Water Pump
This checkin to GLQQRWZK Collice Street Water Pump reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. AltAnnabel by an old-style water pump. AltAnnabel by an old-style water pump. After an extended trip to the nearby park - one of our little one's favourite places - she was able to be persuaded to β¦
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Couldn't find GCZ51Y Eddie Confesses
This checkin to GCZ51Y Eddie Confesses reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. After a delightful hike across from two other caches, my 3 y/o geocaching assistant and I were optimistic about another find, but it wasn't to be. It's probably how well it's camouflaged, but we hunted high and low β¦
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Tomorrow's Web, Today
Feeling optimistic about the technical future of the Web, Dan finds the opportunity to hack about with some promising new tools: Intersection Observers, Web Workers, Blobs, and the Fetch API.
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Found GLQP5J37 Best Kept Garden
This checkin to GLQP5J37 Best Kept Garden reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Easy cache & dash for my 3 y/o niece and I on the way back from a trip to Islip play area (and one of Islip's multis) from our home in Kidlington. Super easy find, nice and β¦
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Found GLQP4RPJ Church Micro 9088 - Islip, St Nicholas
This checkin to GLQP4RPJ Church Micro 9088 - Islip, St Nicholas reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Came out with my 3 y/o niece (and budding geocacher) to the play area across the road and took a diversion to come find this cache. Enjoyed finding the stages and reading/counting to β¦
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Hottest Editors
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Found GLQJY8NE keele TB HOTEL north
This checkin to GLQJY8NE keele TB HOTEL north reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Stopped off on the Southbound carriageway and took a walk over here to find this cache while I was nearby. Only had my phone and not my GPSr, which made finding this harder than I'd like β¦
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Posted a note for GC2033H Heigh-Ho #5 - Doc
This checkin to GC2033H Heigh-Ho #5 - Doc reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I just met somebody who was in the team that built this bridge (he was explaining about how the bridge is slightly wonky because the wrong kind of beams were delivered to the site). I was β¦
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Thanks for an awesome hacknight last night @JSOxford + @render_conf.... hey... that's me on the screen! #RenderConf https://t.co/wsoYCjMr3d
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Digest for March 2017
Summary
This month, I concluded an extended screenscraping and data-mining operation into what music local radio station Jack FM played, joined-in the JSOxford/Render Conf hack event, and shared SMBC's weird homage to Dilbert.
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What Does Jack FM Sound β¦ -
Idea: @jmperezperez's progressive images (a-la Medium) plus Service Worker to detect failures, sched. a retry. Who want to hack? #renderconf
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When you disable text selection or right-clicking you break text-to-speech systems and don't protect content anyway. @ninjanails #renderconf
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The big question when evaluating technology shouldn't be "how well does it work?" but "how well does it fail?", says @adactio. #RenderConf
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Not Dogs Birmingham is Three Months Old!
Happy birthday to Not Dogs Birmingham! Our doors have been open at the BullringΒs LinkStreet for just 12 weeks now and what fun we are having!Our fantastic Crew have welcomed many people (veggies, vegans and meat-eaters!) into the restaurant, seven days a week and weΒre looking forward to seeing many more of you. Over the β¦