Kind: Articles
Traditional long form content: a post with an explicit title and body.
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Short-Term Blogging
Next time you've got something to share or a personal project, why not start a blog?
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Werewolves and Wanderer
A single text-based adventure game I found in a book in the 1980s taught me more about programming than anything else I experienced in that decade.
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Solitary Nouns
Collective nouns are great and all, but what if we had solitary nouns?
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Local Expert
This week, I spoke to a school group about the history of The Devil's Quoits. Perhaps I should be more-willing to share what I've learned in-general, even in areas where I'm still learning?
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How cool are Silo's credits?
New TV series Silo's pretty good, but its credits sequence is just... excellent. Let me take it apart bit-by-bit for you.
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WCEU23 - Day 2
Today was the first second full day of WordPress Europe 2023 in Athens. It was... busy. And intense.
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WCEU23 - Day 1
My first "full" day at WordCamp Europe 2023 was busy and intense, but I loved networking and learning about WordPress history and security and what's worth knowing about design and typography.
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WCEU23 - Contributor Day
Today was Contributor Day at my very first WordCamp. I hacked code for WP-CLI and met some awesome people.
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Have Fun with Missions, Visions, and Values
My team and I recently used a deck of Dixit cards to playfully work on refining our collective idea of our identity and our values. It turns out we're a D&D-like party of heroic adventurers!
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Travelling light
Lately, I've taken to "travelling light", and it feels carefree and liberating.
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Normal for Children
The natural state of a child is to assume that their upbringing, their family, and thier community is representative and normal, so we all end up growing up with learned "quirks" that we don't discover until they're challenged. How many do you still harbour?
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Nightmares & Noggins
I had a nightmare last night in which I was underprepared for an upcoming D&D session. Because I am underprepared, I guess, but mostly because I was ill and sleeping badly anyway!
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How a 2002 standard made 2022 bearable
Somewhere, in another timeline, the P3P standard is alive and thriving and saving us from cookie/privacy popovers.
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AI is lying to you
Despite how much of DanQ.me is tokenised by ChatGPT, it still outright lies when asked about it. Why is this, and what does it mean for our use of LLMs?
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New Far Side in FreshRSS
In response to a recent comment, I've written a recipe for getting "new" Far Side content into FreshRSS too.