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April Features!
The start of April's a perfect time for a "Spring refresh" of a personal website. This year, I'm enabling a handful of experimental new features; visit DanQ.me and you might randomly be selected to try one out!
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Quickly Solving JigsawExplorer Puzzles
A fellow jigsaw-hating geocacher, familiar with my work on Jigidi, challenged me to find a way to bypass JigsawExplorer too. Here's what I came up with...
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Oxford's Area Code at OGN 57
At next month's Oxford Geek Nights I'll be talking about why Oxford's telephone area code makes no sense... until it does! But that's not why you should attend: you should attend because of the five far more-talented speakers I'll be sharing the stage with!
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Home Page, 50% Off!
By optimising a few bits of my homepage I've halved its size, which incidentally takes me up from the third to the second league of 512kb club members!
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My Favourite Video Game Easter Egg
My favourite video game Easter egg is Alorik's crystal ball from 1993's Ultima Underworld II, and I'd love to tell you why.
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The Stupidest CSS
Yesterday, I wrote the stupidest CSS code of my entire web development career. The code itself wasn't the stupid bit; my misinterpretation of the designer's wishes was what caused the problem!
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Zap
This week, a live-to-earth fault on the grid resulted in me getting zapped with mains electricity. Unfortunately, it didn't give me superpowers, just a mildly-interesting anecdote and a partially-shaved chest.
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Yours Quim-cerely
I received a lovely letter from the Vagina Museum - which I've not had the opportunity to visit yet - printed on their new laserjet printer.
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BBC News... without the crap
BBC News' RSS feed has lately started getting duplicates because they're mucking about with guids. Also what's with the iPlayer and BBC Sounds content in there? Let's "fix" that for them, shall we?
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RSS > ActivityPub
RSS is better than ActivityPub. Fight me.
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Out as Poly at Work
I've been "out" about my polyamory in every job I've had for the last 20+ years. I recommend it.
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Sonarr > Huginn > Slack
After IFTTT axed their Legacy Pro plan, I needed to move my Sonarr-to-Slack notification system to Huginn. This turned out to be super easy!
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Freedom of the Mountain
Being able to safely ski virtually any run in any resort is a privilege I enjoy, but I wonder if perhaps my skiing skills have peaked and it's time to try to learn another snowsport...
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Shiftless Progressive Enhancement
Today a 7-year-old helped remind me that progressive enhancement doesn't have to mean render-blocking DOM manipulation nor ugly layout shifts.
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100 Days To Offload
The #100DaysToOffload challenge asked personal bloggers to author 100 posts in a year. I've done that a dozen times by accident, but does it count?